Carl Hugo Hahn

Carl Hugo Hahn
Carl Hugo Hahn
Personal details
Born(1818-10-18)18 October 1818
Aahof near Riga, Russian Empire, (Now Latvia)
Died1895(1895-00-00) (aged 76–77)
Cape Town, Cape colony (now South Africa)
DenominationLutheran

Carl Hugo Hahn (1818–1895) was a Baltic German missionary and linguist who worked in South Africa and South-West Africa for most of his life. Together with Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt, he set up the first Rhenish mission station for the Herero people in Gross Barmen. Hahn is known for his scientific work on the Herero language.

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