Ernst Dammann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Dammann

German theologian

Date of Birth: 06-May-1904

Place of Birth: Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Date of Death: 12-Jul-2003

Profession: writer, theologian, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Ernst Karl Alwin Hans Dammann (6 May 1904 in Pinneberg, Holstein – 12 July 2003 in Pinneberg) was a German Africanist.
With Walter Markov, he was one of the founders of African Studies in the DDR, and as a student of Carl Meinhof and the successor of Diedrich Hermann Westermann, was part of the "second wave" of German Africanists.
A prodigious scholar of African languages and a one-time missionary in Tanga, Tanzania, he was an early member of the Nazi party, and his scientific work was criticized as imbued with racist ideology.