296:(Cape Town, 1882), and his address from 29 April 1882, in Cape Town to the 53rd annual members' conference of the South African Public Library. He contributed heavily to the report of the 1883 Cape Government Commission on Native Laws and Customs, displaying his familiarity with the Nama way of life. Perhaps a better scholar and researcher than librarian, he was dismissed by
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Velskoendraers along with the area of Swartmodder (now Keetmanshoop). This gave him the money in Stellenbosch to buy the home of a physician, Dr. Hanf, at the foot of Papegaaiberg on the road to Lynedoch. Despite the help of his son Roderick, his farming venture failed; his wife died in 1895,
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Both found it difficult to submit to the authority of the Baster
Council and objected to the annual $ 25 tariff and the smaller local tax. They refused to pay more than half of it, and insisted that half of the court that settled disputes between Basters and whites should be white. The immediate
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and his fellow members of the Baster
Council ordered Hahn and Steyn to leave. The temperamental Hahn immediately appealed in a letter to the chief of the ǁKhauǀgoan (called by white settlers the Swartbooi Nama), who once had occupied the Basters' land, asking him to leave as well. Cooler heads
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Many of his problems could be attributed to his high-strung, pretentious character, which annoyed even his own family. His research brought him acclaim abroad and membership in famed scientific societies such as the aforementioned
Geographical Societies of Dresden and Berlin and the
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on 21 October 1872, statistically outlining the lucrative trade between the Cape Colony and claiming it could be doubled were the Cape colonial authorities to pacify the area. Receiving no response, Hahn moved north to
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Maharero and other chiefs then petitioned the Cape government for protection. In response, Special
Commissioner William Coates Palgrave was sent to SWA to discuss protectorate possibilities with the chiefs, the famed
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have not held up to scrutiny, especially in the latter, in which he reveals his antipathy toward what he called "the Dutch patois in this Colony." On the other hand, his writings on the culture of the
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Hahn at first planned to return to SWA to work as a surveyor and cartographer, but after his vocational training he decided to return to the subject of the Nama, spending four years at the
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Ghansies to settle east of Rehoboth, in which Hahn told Van Zyl 40–50 settlers could easily take control of the area and alleged already inviting farmers from the
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126:("The Khoikhoi Tsui-ǁgoab and the Indo-European Zeus, Journal of the Berlin Geographical Society") (Berlin, 1870). He matriculated from Halle in 1870 with his dissertation
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During his years in
Stellenbosch, Hahn was disillusioned with a lack of equipment and funds for his surveying work. The lean years in Stellenbosch yielded his brochure
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Throughout 1889, Hahn worked in SWA as an agent for the
Kharaskhoma Exploring and Prospecting Syndicate to acquire land and mineral rights to the territory of the
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78:, (Germany), the Rhenish Missionary headquarters. When his father retired in 1852, Hahn lived at the family home there, but never forgot his time in Namaland.
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277:(Cape Town, 1884). Despite severe bibliographic flaws and multiple errors, it was used for decades as a basic catalog to supplement Bleek's 1858 one.
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While living in Cape Town, he once again participated in historical events. He gave valuable information on SWA's commercial potential to the young
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Langenbeck. He spent his first six years at the mission Eben-Ezer in the Western Cape, until 1848, when the family moved to
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Boekhandel Beperk, namens die Nasionale Raad vir Sosiale Navorsing, Departement van Hoër Onderwys.
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are seminal to Westerners' understanding of these peoples, and he was among the first to study San attitudes toward the
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to explain his actions, but Hahn bluntly refused to and asked Maharero to pay him debt.
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hills to settle in northern Namaland when he met them on a business trip to Cape Town.
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campus in Cape Town, in which capacity he cataloged its contents as
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Die Nama-Hottentotten: ein Beitrag zur südafrikanischen Ethnographie
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An index to the Grey collection in the South African public library
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and other members of the library committee on 30 November 1883.
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Die Buschmänner: ein Beitrag zur südafrikanischen Völkerkunde
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Early African exploration, up to the end of the 16th century
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Hahn thought it prudent to leave SWA in 1878. He moved to
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Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education
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110:in Southern Africa"), Globus XIII (Dresden, 1868);
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292:(Cape Town, 1882), and
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245:Moving to Cape Colony
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404:Lucy Lloyd
391:professor
317:bona fides
263:Max Müller
223:Damaraland
207:Kamiesberg
41:linguistic
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227:Okahandja
108:Ovaherero
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191:Rehoboth
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