Jean-Jérôme Adam

Jean-Jérôme Adam was born on 8 June 1904 in Wittenheim, in Alsace, and trained with the Holy Ghost Fathers; he was ordained a priest on 28 October 1928. A missionary in Gabon, in the Haut-Ogooué, he was appointed vicar apostolic of Libreville in 1947, became bishop of the city in 1955, then archbishop in 1958, and retired in 1969. He published grammars of Mbede, Ndumu and Duma, a dictionary of these languages and collections of oral literature. He died on 11 July 1981, aged seventy-seven.

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• TaleFables, proverbes et devinettes du Haut-OgoouéJean-Jérôme Adam · 1977not translated into EnglishLiterature