Johannes Zimmermann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johannes Zimmermann

German missionary, linguist and religious servant

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1825

Place of Birth: Gerlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 13-Dec-1876

Profession: missionary, translator, religious servant, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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.
Mostly an oral language before the mid-nineteenth century, the Ga language assumed a written form as a result of his literary work.
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.