Theophilus Schumann was a German missionary from the Moravian Church. From 1748 he worked in Guyana, where he died in 1760.

Material:

• 1 handwritten manuscript (“Polyglotta americana. 1. Grammatik der arawackischen Sprache. 2. Lexikon der arawackischen Sprache“, place unspecified, 1880, 357 sheets; transcribed by Will. Herzog)

Provenance: part of Walter Lehmann’s papers.

Keywords: Guyana, ethnolinguistics