| LC control no. | no2012008359 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Zimmermann, Johannes, 1825-1876 |
| Associated country | Germany Ghana |
| Associated place | Switzerland |
| Birth date | 1825-03-02 |
| Death date | 1876-12-13 |
| Place of birth | Gerlingen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) |
| Place of death | Gerlingen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) |
| Field of activity | Gã language Bible--Translating |
| Affiliation | Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel |
| Profession or occupation | Clergy Missionaries Translators |
| Found in | Schwarzer Samt, c2011: p. 4 of cover (Johannes Zimmermann, German missionary to Ghana in mid-19th century) Dictionary of African Christian Biography website, viewed Jan. 18, 2012 (Johannes Zimmermann, Basel Mission, Ghana; b. Mar. 2, 1825, at Gerlingen, near Stuttgart; d. Dec. 13, 1876; began training with Basel Mission in Basel, Switzerland, in 1844; translated entire Bible into the Ga language, made Ga the literary language of the Ga-Adangme of southeastern Ghana) Wikipedia, February 5, 2024 (Johannes Zimmermann; missionary, clergyman, translator, philologist and ethnolinguist of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society; arrived at Christiansborg in the Gold Coast in 1850, age 25; in 1851 he married Catherine Mulgrave, an Afro-Jamaican teacher at the girls' school at Christiansborg who was born in Angola; he translated the Bible and 500 hymns (300 of his own composition) into the Gã language; influenced by sociohistorical theories of Johann Gottfried Herder, on the equality of different cultures; built his mission house in the village of Odumase, the hub of the Manya-Krobo kingdom; returned to his home town Gerlingen with his wife via Basel in September 1876, due to poor health; died there on 13 December 1876) |
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