Jahn, Janheinz (Personal Name)

His Muntu, 1958.

Contemporary authors on Infotrac, Apr. 25, 2007 (Janheinz Jahn; b. July 23, 1918, Frankfurt, Germany, d. 1973, Messel, West Germany; educator, translator, and author)

Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015 (1918-1973)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed February 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Jahn, Janheinz; translator, historian, literary scholar; born 1918 in Germany; studied history of arts and the Arabic language (1930s); soldier during World War II; worked as a freelance writer and journalist; made his living from publishing books; gave public lectures on African literature; initiated correspondence with African writers in order to collect African poetry; edited his first anthology of African literature, Schwarzer Orpheus (Black Orpheus) (1954); published more than twenty volumes of poetry and short stories of contemporary African authors; translated more than a dozen books of African writers; wrote books on African literature and the arts in general; published Muntu: An Outline of Neo-African Culture (1958); published a bibliography of African literature that contained the works of over 1,400 authors (1965); was a visiting professor at the University of Texas (Austin) (1972); died in 1973 in Germany)