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    Johann Ludwig Krapf (11 January 1810 – 26 November 1881) was a German missionary in East Africa, as well as an explorer, linguist, and traveler. Krapf...
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    feats including being the first European, along with his colleague Johann Ludwig Krapf, to enter Africa from the Indian Ocean coast. In addition, he was...
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    missionaries Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann of the Anglican Church Missionary Society (CMS). During the trips, both Rebmann and Krapf came within...
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    Encyclopædia also records the name of the mountain as Kilima-Njaro. Johann Ludwig Krapf wrote in 1860 that Swahilis along the coast called the mountain Kilimanjaro...
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    explorer Johann Ludwig Krapf in the 19th century. While travelling with a Kamba caravan led by the long-distance trader Chief Kivoi, Krapf spotted the...
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    slave trade Omani Empire Said bin Sultan British colonial period Johann Ludwig Krapf Imperial British East Africa Company Wanga Kingdom Nabongo Mumia...
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  • Nigeria. Johann Heinrich Schmelen translated into the Khoekhoe language (formerly "Hottentot") of the Nama people of Namibia. Johann Ludwig Krapf, a German...
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    slave trade Omani Empire Said bin Sultan British colonial period Johann Ludwig Krapf Imperial British East Africa Company Wanga Kingdom Nabongo Mumia...
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  • Church Missionary Society (CMS) established a Christian mission. Johann Ludwig Krapf came to Rabai in 1844 with his pregnant wife Rosine, whom he had...
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  • of Johann Ludwig Krapf, who built the church with Johannes Rebmann. In 1844, a member of the Church Missionary Society named Johann Ludwig Krapf began...
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    slave trade Omani Empire Said bin Sultan British colonial period Johann Ludwig Krapf Imperial British East Africa Company Wanga Kingdom Nabongo Mumia...
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    The first Christian mission was founded on 25 August 1846, by Dr. Johann Ludwig Krapf, a German sponsored by the Church Missionary Society of England.: 561 ...
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  • associated with the missionary works of Carl Wilhelm Isenberg and Johann Ludwig Krapf of the Church Missionary Society, and their encounter with the yet...
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    slave trade Omani Empire Said bin Sultan British colonial period Johann Ludwig Krapf Imperial British East Africa Company Wanga Kingdom Nabongo Mumia...
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    Kenya. When the German explorer Johann Ludwig Krapf came across the mountain, his guide, Kamba trader Chief Kivoi, told Krapf that the mountain was called...
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  • (1844): Johann Ludwig Krapf was in Abyssinia, however when the missionaries were forced out he moved to Mombasa. CMS missionaries, such as Krapf and Johannes...
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    began writing in the Oromo language using Latin script. In 1842, Johann Ludwig Krapf began translations of the Gospels of John and Matthew into Oromo...
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  • dell'ecciaghié Filpos,". RRAL. pp. 699–717. Ludwig Krapf, Johann (1837). Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church. Seeley....
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    Trumpf Jörg Scheller [de] (born 1979), art historian, journalist Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810-1881), pietistic missionary, explorer, linguistic and African...
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    Tibet Johann Ludwig Krapf German 19th Ethiopia, Kenya Pyotr Krenitsyn Russian 18th Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka Peninsula Adam Johann von Krusenstern...
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  • with his colleague Johann Ludwig Krapf, he published at London a memoir of his time in Ethiopia entitled Journals of Isenberg and Krapf, detailing their...
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  • Adda Berga. The major town in Meta Robi is Shino. The missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf passed through the district of a tribe of the Oromo, who were called...
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    slave trade Omani Empire Said bin Sultan British colonial period Johann Ludwig Krapf Imperial British East Africa Company Wanga Kingdom Nabongo Mumia...
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  • education outcomes. Historical records, not only from the travels of Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann, reveal that Swahilis had access to education...
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    of the interior commenced in 1844 when two German missionaries, Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann, ventured inland with the aim of spreading Christianity...
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    colleague, Krapf, saw Kenya from Kitui, a spot 90 miles southeast of the peak. Krapf, Johann Ludwig (13 May 1850). "Extract from Krapf's diary". Church...
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    notable landmark is a church Weldiya Gebriel. When the missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf passed through Weldiya in April 1842, it was the headquarters of...
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  • slave trade Omani Empire Said bin Sultan British colonial period Johann Ludwig Krapf Imperial British East Africa Company Wanga Kingdom Nabongo Mumia...
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    slave trade Omani Empire Said bin Sultan British colonial period Johann Ludwig Krapf Imperial British East Africa Company Wanga Kingdom Nabongo Mumia...
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  • principalities around him, and battling the Oromo invaders. According to Johann Ludwig Krapf, Abuye defeated the ruler of Menz, Gole, and annexed that district...
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