Sir Hanns Vischer, CMG, CBE (1876 -1945) was a Swiss born British national who was an advisor on education to the government of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate.
[1] Towards his final year in college, he had developed interest in African ethnology and had attended an Hausa language training course in Tripoli.
[1] He returned in 1903, as a naturalised British, resigning from missionary work which he was fond of, he joined the colonial service as an Assistant Resident.
In 1906, Vischer embarked on a journey through the Sahara, from Tripoli to Kukawa to study some of the cultures that might have influenced the Kanuri people.
[1] in 1923, he became the honorable secretary of the Advisory Committee on Education in the British colonies in Africa and a year later was involved in the foundation of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures.