Janheinz Jahn (23 July 1918 in Frankfurt on Main – 20 October 1973 in Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg) was a German writer and influential scholar of literature from sub-Saharan Africa].
In 1951 Jahn met the Senegalese poet and future President Léopold Sédar Senghor in Frankfurt on Main.
Jahn's wife Edith chose, in 1968, to commit suicide, possibly taking the lives of their two children Aurel and Dominic.
In 1970 he was awarded the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation of the German Academy for Language and Literature .
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