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St. Paul-Illaire, Walter von

LC control no.no2011134107
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingSt. Paul-Illaire, Walter von
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Variant(s)Saint Paul-Illaire, Walter von
Paul-Illaire, Walter von St.
Illaire, Walter von St. Paul-
Von St. Paul-Illaire, Walter
Saint Paul-Illaire, Walter Le Tanneux de
Saint Paul-Illaire, Adalbert Emil Walter Le Tanneux von
St. Paul-Jllaire, Walter von
See alsoAlternate identity: Afrikanus, 1860-1940
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Other standard no.Q108020
69711722
0000000010546083
Associated countryGermany
Associated placeGerman East Africa
Birth date1860-01-12
Death date1940-12-12
Place of birthBerlin (Germany)
Place of deathBerlin (Germany)
Profession or occupationColonial administrators
Found inSwahili-Sprachfuhrer, 1896: t.p. (Walter von St. Paul-Illaire; the "I" appears to be the letter "J")
Wikipedia, March 25, 2022 (Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire or Adalbert Emil Walter Le Tanneux von Saint Paul-Illaire (born January 12, 1860 in Berlin ; died December 12, 1940 ibid) was a German colonial official in East Africa. He hailed from the noble family of Le Tanneux von Saint Paul, which had moved to Prussia in the 17th century; In 1885 Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire joined the private German East Africa Company. In January 1886 he took part in an expedition to what is now Kenya for the society. He then became director of customs and, in 1889, general agent of the German East Africa Company in Zanzibar. In 1891 the German Reich took over the administration of German East Africa and Saint Paul-Illaire became a district official in Tanga. He was district officer there from 1891 to 1900; works: Swahili-Sprachführer. Daresalaam 1896; Kriegs-Xenien: Stimmen und Stimmungen aus dem Weltkriege. Leipzig 1919; Der Fluch der deutschen "Gewissenhaftigkeit". Berlin 1921)
Deutsche Biographie website, March 25, 2022 (Saint Paul-Illaire, Walter Le Tanneux de; 1860-1940; variant names: Saint Paul-Illaire, Walter Le Tanneux de; Afrikanus; Illaire, Walter Le Tanneux de Saint Paul; colonial officer)
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Kriegs-Xenien, 1919: title page (von Afrikanus)
Der Fluch der deutschen "Gewissenhaftigkeit", 1921: title page (von Afrikanus)
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