Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari: Swahili lecturer and author in Germany

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122 References Archives consulted Archiv des Berliner Missionswerks (Berlin), the mission archives at the central archives of the Protestant church in Berlin (Kirchliches Archivzentrum Berlin, http://www.ezab.de/), holding documents and photographs of the Berlin Missionary Society (Berliner Missionsgesellschaft). Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung (Witzenhausen, http://www.burgludwigstein.de/ archiv/), Archives of the German Youth Movement, contains a collection on Hans Paasche, which contains neither relevant documents nor photographs. Archiv der Franckeschen Stiftungen (Halle, http://www.francke-halle.de/main/), the archives of the August Hermann Francke Foundation, holding the documents of the Leipzig Mission (Evangelisch-Lutherische Mission); the photographs are kept by the mission house (Evangelisches Missionswerk) in Leipzig. Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv (Berlin), Berlin Phonogram Archives at the ethnological museum (Ethnologisches Museum). Breklumer Mission (Breklum, http://www.christian-jensen-kolleg.de/index.html), the archives of the Breklum Mission. Bundesarchiv (Berlin and Koblenz, http://www.bundesarchiv.de/), the German Federal Archives contains documents and photographs relating to the former German colonies. Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin, http://www.gsta.spk-berlin.de/ framesets/frameset.php), the archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation contains the archives of the former Prussian State. Hamburger Bibliothek für Universitätsgeschichte (Hamburg), Hamburg Library for University History, e.g. contains the register of students of the HCI, but otherwise no unpublished sources that are relevant to this study. Historical Archives of the Seventh Day Adventists in Europe (in Friedensau, near Magdeburg). According to communication with the archivist, Daniel Heinz, it seems unlikely that there are relevant sources concerning the members of this mission who studied Swahili at Mtoro Bakari’s time (e.g. Ernst Kotz) or may have attended the colloquium on Islam. Landesarchiv Berlin (Berlin, http://www.landesarchiv-berlin.de/), the municipal archives of Berlin. Lautarchiv (Berlin, http://publicus.culture.hu-berlin.de/lautarchiv/), phonetic archives at the Department of Musicology, Humboldt University, contain recordings produced between 1909 and 1944, but none of Mtoro Bakari according to the director, Jürgen Mahrenholz. Mission 21, Evangelisches Missionswerk Basel (Basel, http://www.mission-21.org/), holding the archives of the Basel Mission; according to the archivist, Guy Thomas, there are no specific files concerning the SOL or the HCI, nor are there relevant letters of Adolf Vielhauer, the only member of this missionary society who matriculated at the Department of Colonial Languages of the SOL between 1905/06 and 1908/09. Phonetisches Laboratorium (Hamburg, Dresden). The Phonetic Laboratory was part of the Department of Colonial Languages of the HCI. The collection of the first director, Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia, is found in the Department of General & Applied Linguistics, University of Hamburg. The technical devices have been transferred to the Dresden University of Technology (http://tu-dresden.de). The recordings were largely destroyed during the Second World War. There are none left which are relevant to this study. Archives 123 Staatsarchiv Bremen (Bremen, http://www.staatsarchiv.bremen.de/), state archives of Bremen contain documents and photographs of the North German Missionary Society. There is some evidence concerning members of this society studying Ewe at the SOL and the HCI, but apparently no information on their reported participation in the colloquium on Islam. Staatsarchiv der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg (Hamburg, http://fhh.hamburg.de/stadt/ Aktuell/behoerden/staatsarchiv/start.html), the State Archives of Hamburg contain the archives of the Hamburg Colonial Institute and the Department of African Languages, University of Hamburg. Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky (Hamburg, http://www.sub.unihamburg .de/sammlungen/sonder.html), the State and University Library of Hamburg, includes the papers of Otto Dempwolff, but apparently no information on Mtoro Bakari. Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin, http://handschriften.staatsbibliothekberlin . de/), the largest academic library in Germany, contains the former Prussian State’s library collections, as well as unpublished documents including letters of Carl Meinhof, Carl Velten, etc., but apparently no information on Mtoro Bakari. Tanzania National Archives (Dar es Salaam), contain the major part of the documents of the colonial administrations of German East Africa and Tanganyika. Unitätsarchiv der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine (Herrnhut, http://www.archiv.ebu.de/), contains documents and photographs of the Moravian Church (Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine). Vereinte Evangelische Mission (Wuppertal, http://www.vemission.org/wer-wir-sind/archivund -museumsstiftung-wuppertal/), archives of the United Evangelical Mission, contains documents and photographs of the Rhine Missionary Society (Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft) and the Evangelical Mission for German East Africa (Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Deutsch-Ostafrika) which moved from Berlin to Bethel in 1906 and came to be known as...