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Christaller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Helene Christaller (1872–1953), German writer *Emilie Christaller (1829–1866), German missionary and educator *Johann Gottlieb Christaller Johann Gottlieb Christaller (19 November 1827 – 16 December 1895) was a German missionary, clergyman, ethnolinguist, translator and philologist who served with the Basel Mission. He was devoted to the study of the Twi language in what was the ... (1827–1895), German missionary and linguist * Walter Christaller, German geographer {{Surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilie Christaller
Christiane Emilie Christaller, née Ziegler, (1829 – 13 August 1866) was a Germanic peoples, German Teacher, educator and Christian mission, missionary in Akropong in colonial Ghana. She was the first wife of Johann Gottlieb Christaller (1827–1895), a German missionary, Linguistics, linguist and philologist of the Basel Mission, notable for his leading role in the translation of the entire Bible, Holy Bible into the Twi, Twi language. Early life and education Christiane Emilie Ziegler was born in 1829 in the town of Waiblingen near Stuttgart in the southwest German state of Baden-Württemberg. Her parents were Christian Ludwig Ziegler and Rosine Kübler, who were described as non-church-going Christians who always prayed at the table. Emilie Ziegler had seven siblings including Pauline (Frau Haefner), Marie (Frau Pfleiderer) and Bertha Ziegler who eventually married J.G. Christaller in 1872 after her sister's death in 1866. Emilie Ziegler's parents permitted her to go to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helene Christaller
Helene Christaller (, née ''Heyer'': 31 January 1872, in Darmstadt – 24 May 1953, in Jugenheim/ Bergstraße) was a German Protestant writer mostly of youth books, especially for girls. During the Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...-Era her books were not printed because of their Christian tenor. Literary works * ''Gottfried Erdmann'', 1908 * ''Heilige Liebe'', 1911 * ''Verborgenheit'', 1920 * ''Das Tagebuch der Annette'', 1926 * ''Ein gefülltes Leben'', 1939 * ''Eine Lebensgeschichte'', 1942 External links * * German women writers 1872 births 1953 deaths {{Germany-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Gottlieb Christaller
Johann Gottlieb Christaller (19 November 1827 – 16 December 1895) was a German missionary, clergyman, ethnolinguist, translator and philologist who served with the Basel Mission. He was devoted to the study of the Twi language in what was then the Gold Coast, now Ghana. He was instrumental, together with African colleagues, Akan linguists, David Asante, Theophilus Opoku, Jonathan Palmer Bekoe, and Paul Keteku in the translation of the Bible into the Akuapem dialect of Twi. Christaller was also the first editor of the Christian Messenger, the official news publication of the Basel Mission, serving from 1883 to 1895. He is recognised in some circles as the "founder of scientific linguistic research in West Africa". Early life and education Johann Christaller was born in Winnenden, near Stuttgart in Germany. His father was a tailor and a subsistence farmer of modest background, who was keen on books and had a large personal library with more than 2000 books. Johann Christalle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
