Johannes Ittmann

John Ittmann ( born January 26, 1885 in United -Umstadt, † June 15, 1963 in Heubach ) was a Protestant missionary.

Life

Characterised by the Bible studies in his home, he resigned after his training as a notary agents in 1904 in the Mission Seminary of the Basel Mission, a, studied in 1911 at Carl Meinhof in Hamburg Duala, was sent the same year to Cameroon, where he worked as head of a secondary school until 1914. He married there in the same year Hanny Weygandt.

By the outbreak of World War II, he had to interrupt his missionary service. He worked several years as a parish administrator in Hesse, in 1927 re-transmission to Cameroon, with short breaks as Church President ( Head of Section ) to the internment 1940 in Jamaica where he worked. After the war it came to forced retirement. He was from 1948 to 1957 parish administrator in large -Umstadt. Settled then to his daughter to Mainz.

The several thousand print page work consists mainly of research on Cameroonian languages, especially Duala. Extensive publications on ethnology and anthropology of religion in Cameroon and a mission scientific work round off the work. Ittmann died in 1963, shortly before the award of a theological honorary doctorate. His field research made ​​Ittmann to a material collector Cameroonian and African theology - his work with the African image of God are leading the way for the theological exploration of African religions. The archive of the Basel Mission overlapping, yet unpublished materials are evaluated at the Humboldt University in Berlin.