Johannes Zimmermann

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The Reverend
Johannes Zimmermann
Johannes Zimmermann
Born(1825-03-02)2 March 1825
Gerlingen, Germany
Died13 December 1876(1876-12-13) (aged 51)
Gerlingen, Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationBasel Mission Seminary, Basel, Switzerland
Occupations
SpouseCatherine Mulgrave (m. 1851)
Children6
ChurchBasel Evangelical Missionary Society
Orders
Ordination9 December, 1849, Herrenberg
ConsecrationBasel Minster, 1849

Johannes Zimmermann (2 March 1825 – 13 December 1876) was a missionary, clergyman, translator, philologist and ethnolinguist of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society of Switzerland, who translated the entire Bible into the Ga language of the Ga-Dangme people of southeastern Ghana and wrote a Ga dictionary and grammar book.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Mostly an oral language before the mid-nineteenth century, the Ga language assumed a written form as a result of his literary work.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Zimmerman's work built upon the single introductory grammatical treatise written by the Euro-African Moravian missionary and educator, Christian Jacob Protten, in the Ga and Fante languages, and published a century earlier in Copenhagen, in 1764.[18][19][20][21][22][23]

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  2. ^ "Zimmermann, Johannes – Life and work – Johannes-Rebmann-Stiftung". www.johannes-rebmann-stiftung.de. Archived from the original on 24 November 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. ^ Ofosu-Appiah, L. H. (1997). The Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography (in 20 Volumes). Volume One. Ethiopia-Ghana.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Debrunner, H. W. (1967). A History of Christianity in Ghana. Accra: Waterville Publishing House.
  5. ^ Odjidja, E. M. L., (compiler) (1973). Mustard Seed: The Growth of the Church in Kroboland. Accra.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Odonkor, S. S. (1971). The Rise of the Krobos. Tema.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ Reindorf, C. C. (1966). History of the Gold Coast and Asante, 2nd ed. Accra (originally published in Basel, 1895): Waterville Publishing House.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  8. ^ Schlater, Wilhelm (1916). Geschichte der Basler Mission, 1815-1915, ("History of the Basel Mission, 1815-1915"). Basel.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ Smith, Noel (1966). The Presbyterian Church of Ghana 1835-1960. Accra.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ^ Zimmermann, J. (1855). The Four Gospels in the Ga Language. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. ^ Zimmermann, J. (1858). An English-Accra or Ga Dictionary. Stuttgart.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ^ Zimmermann, J. (1885). A Grammatical Sketch of the Akra or Ga Language and Some Specimens of it from the Mount of the Natives, Stuttgart, 1858, revised edition published as A Grammatical Sketch of the Akra or Ga Language and a Vocabulary of the Same with an Appendix on the Adanme Dialect, 2 Vols. Stuttgart.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ Zimmermann, J. (1858). The Acts of the Apostles (Ga translation). London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ Zimmermann, J. (1859). The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans (Ga translation). London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. ^ Zimmermann, J. (1860). The New Testament (Ga translation), 2nd edition, London, 1872, new revised edition 1889, corrected reprint 1908, corrected reprint 1911. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  16. ^ Zimmermann, J., Christaller, J. G. & Locher, C. W. (1894). English-Tschi-Akra Dictionary. Basel.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ Zimmermann, J. (1907). The Old Testament (Ga translation), rev. ed. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  18. ^ Smith, Noel. "Christian Jacob Protten". dacb.org. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  19. ^ Dreydoppel, Otto. "Christian Jacob Protten". dacb.org. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  20. ^ Sebald, Peter (1994). "Christian Jacob Protten Africanus (1715-1769) - erster Missionar einer deutschen Missionsgesellschaft in Schwarzafrika". Kolonien und Missionen. (in German): 109–121. OCLC 610701345.
  21. ^ Simonsen, Gunvor (April 2015). "Belonging in Africa: Frederik Svane and Christian Protten on the Gold Coast in the Eighteenth Century". Itinerario. 39 (1): 91–115. doi:10.1017/S0165115315000145. ISSN 0165-1153. S2CID 162672218.
  22. ^ Hutton, J. E. (1923). A History of Moravian Missions. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  23. ^ "Christian Jakobus Protten". geni_family_tree. 15 September 1715. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.