Henri-Alexandre Junod

Henri-Alexandre Junod was born in 1863 in Chézard-Saint-Martin, in the canton of Neuchâtel; the son of a pastor, he was himself ordained in 1885. Sent by the Mission romande, he left in 1889 for southern Mozambique, to Rikatla, north of Lourenço Marques. He learned Ronga, of which he published a grammar, and also collected the insects of the region. He then founded a school at Shiluvane, in the Transvaal, and was a pioneer of Tsonga ethnography. He died in Geneva in 1934.

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• TaleLes Chants et les contes des Ba-RongaHenri-Alexandre Junod · 1897not translated into EnglishLiterature