Johann Ludwig Krapf

  Johann Ludwig Krapf (11 January 1810 - 26 Mweri wa 11 1881) aarĩ mũhunjia wa Njĩrĩmani mucangacangi wa East Africa, na aarĩ njorua wa thiomi, na mũgendi wĩ gatũ. Krapf nĩ aahũthagĩra wĩra wa bata mũno gũceerera Afrika ya Irathĩro marĩ hamwe na Johannes Rebmann. Nĩo maarĩ andũ a mbere kuuma Rũraya kuona Kĩrĩma gĩa Kenya makĩhũthĩra Ikamba ũrĩa watũũraga mwena wa Kĩrĩma na Kilimanjaro. Ludwig Krapf nĩ aathire Ukambani, bũrũri wa Andũ a Kamba, mwaka wa 1849 na rĩngĩ mwaka wa 1850. Nĩ aataũrire Kiugo kĩa Ngai na njĩra njega na Rũthiomi rwa Kamba. Ningĩ Krapf nĩ aahũthĩrire wĩra wa bata mũno gũceera mwena wa irathĩro wa Afrika, makĩria Mombasa.

Igai rĩa Krapf

• Kanitha wa Anglican wa Kenya nĩ ũmwĩtaga ithe wa kanitha ũcio.
• Arutani a thiomi nĩ marathomete wĩra wake tondũ nĩ eerutire thiomi ta Ge'ez, Amharic, Oromo, Swahili, Kamba, Mijikenda na Kĩmathai.
• Mũciĩ wake New Rabai rĩu nĩ gĩcunjĩ kĩa Rabai Museum, ũmwe wa Mĩthangathĩ ya Gĩthũngũ ya Kenya. Nyũmba ya rũthamĩrũ rwa Njĩrĩmani Nairobi ĩtagwo "Ludwig-Krapf-House".
• Gĩcagi-inĩ kwao Tübingen-Derendingen nĩ kũrĩ cukuru ya kĩambĩrĩria ĩĩtagwo na rĩĩtwa rĩake.

mabuku

• Vocabulary of the Galla Language, London 1842.(Ibuku rĩa ciugo rĩa Rũthiomi rwa Galla)

• Vocabulary of six East African languages. Kiswahili, Kinika, Kikamba, Kipokomo, Kihiau, Kigalla, Tübingen 1850.

• Outline of the elements of the Kisuaheli Language, with special reference to the Kinika Dialect, Tübingen 1850.

• Reisen in Ostafrika, ausgeführt in den Jahren 1837 - 1855. Unveränderter Nachdruck der Ausgabe Stuttgart, Stroh 1858. Mit einer Einführung hrsg. von Werner Raupp, Münster, Berlin 1994 (= Afrikanische Reisen 2).

• The Books of the Old Testament. Translation in Amharic Language.,3 Bände, London 1871–73.

• Dictionary of the Suahili Language, London 1882.