Schön, James Frederick, 1803-1889
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Name (Latin)
Schön, James Frederick, 1803-1889
Other forms of name
Schön, J. F. (James Frederick), 1803-1889
Schön, Jacob Friedrich, 1803-1889
Date of birth
1803
Date of death
1889
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Hausa (African people)
Hausa language
Hausa literature
Occupation
Clergy
Linguists
Missionaries
Translators
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- La-yia yēkpẹ̄ nanīsia ... 1872:bookplate (James Frederick Schön, translator)
- Lēta̳fin Musa nāfa̳ri, 1858:title page (translated from the original into Hausa by the Rev. James Frederick Schön, chaplain of Melville Hospital, Chatham, member of the German Oriental Society, and late church missionary at Sierra Leone)
- Magána Hausa, 1970:t.p. (Jacob Friedrich Schön) orig t.p. (J.F. Schön)
- OCLC, July 16, 2004:(hdg.: Schön, James Frederick, 1803-1889; usage: James Frederick Schön, J.F. Schön)
- The folktale in Nigeria, 2014:pages 361-362 (J. F. Schon; member of the 1841 Niger expedition under the umbrella of the Church Missionary Society; active with missionaries among Hausa people in Sierra Leone; visited Lokoja and Bida [Nigeria]; did book on Hausa literature, Magana Hausa, with the help of Dorugu, a young Hausa speaker who had traveled with the explorer Barth, and whose narratives are also included)
- Wikipedia, May 14, 2018(James Schön; born 1802, Ober Weiler; died 30 March 1889, Chatham; German missionary and linguist; attended Basel Seminary, then Church Missionary Society College in London; qualified as a priest in 1832, went to Sierra Leone; active with the Church Missionary Society until 1853; expert on the Hausa language; honorary doctorate from Oxford University, 1884)
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J F Schon
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Wikipedia description:
James Frederick Schön (1803, in Oberweiler near Baden – 30 March 1889, in Chatham) was a German missionary and linguist who was active in Sierra Leone. He also participated in the Niger expedition of 1841.
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