Leo Bittremieux

Leo Bittremieux (1926)

Leo Bittremieux (born 4. September 1880 in Sijsele , West Flanders , Belgium . Died 21st September 1946 in Boma , Belgian Congo ) was a Belgian Scheut - missionary , a member of that Roman Catholic male order Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ( Latin: Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae; Order abbreviation: CICM). Through his missionary work in Africa he became an ethnologist and linguist.

Life

Bittremieux worked for some time in western Congo, in Mayombe Land , in a forest area of what was then the Belgian Congo , north of the Congo estuary . In addition to his missionary work, he also studied the people of the country from a sociological and anthropological perspective and he published a few things on the languages of Mayombe land. He turned against the efforts of his congregation for the popularization of the African lingála as the lingála language . During the First World War he worked as a chaplain in Cameroon for some time . Bittremieux collected ritual figures and objects from the Mayombe and used them in the collections of Belgian museums for many years .

Leo Bittremieux was the brother of the theologian Jozef Bittremieux .

Publications

De secret sect of Bakhimba's , Leuven, J.Reekmans-Vanderwaeren 1911
Mayomb names (1911, 2nd ed. 1934).
Mayombsche penneschetsen , Brugge-Sint-Michiel, 1914
Mayombsche Sprokkelingen , 1920
Vertellingen uit Mayombe , 1923
Mayombsch idioticon . Ghent, 1923. 2 vols. Con. Vlaamsche Academie voor Taal- & Letterkunde, 7 / Part III: Verbeteringen en aanvullingen, Plantkundige woordenlijsten en Zakenregister. Publishing house, Brussel, 1927
Mayomb Folk Art (1924).
Vertellingen uit Mayombe (1924).
Van een Ouden Blinden Hoofdman , 1925
Wit en zwart : Schetsen en verhalen uit de Kongo-Missie. Leuven: Vlaamsche Drukkerij, 1930
Target clamps . Leuven, 1930. Met portret. 115 Blz.
Mayomb names . Leuven, 1934 ( book trade link )
La société secrète des Bakhimba au Mayombe . Bruxelles: Falk, 1936 (Mémoires / Institut Royal Colonial Belge, Section des Sciences Techniques / Institut Royal Colonial Belge <Brussels> / Section des Sciences Techniques. - Bruxelles: Inst., 1935; 5.3)
Ce que je pense de l'art indigène? , Lophem, in: "Artisan Liturgique", 1936
La société secrète des Bakhimba au Mayombe (1936).
Symbolisme in de Negerkunst , Brussel, Vromant 1937 ("Bibliothèque Congo - Congo bibliotheek. Nouvelle série-Nieuwe reeks" no.)
De Kongoleesche spraakkunst op nieuwe banen , 1937
Woordkunst of the Bayombe. Lied en spel, dans en tooneel in Beneden-Kongo, 1937, "Leuvense studieën en tekstuitgaven"

literature

Jo Tollebeek: Mayombe, Rituele beelden uit Congo. Tielt, 2010 ( book trade link )

Individual evidence

↑ In particular Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & Royal Museum for Central Africa ; see. Congolese Masters of Magic - kuleuven.be (accessed June 23, 2017)

Web links

Commons : Leo Bittremieux - collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Bittremieux, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian missionary of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, ethnologist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 4, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sijsele , West Flanders , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH	September 21, 1946
Place of death	Boma , Belgian Congo

[1] In particular Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & Royal Museum for Central Africa ; see. Congolese Masters of Magic - kuleuven.be (accessed June 23, 2017)