Stephan Hanna Stephan

Stephan Hanna Stephan
Born	1894 Beit Jala
Died	1949 Lebanon
Known for	Writer and broadcaster of Palestinian history and folklore

Stephan Hanna Stephan (1894–1949), also St H Stephan, was a Palestinian writer, translator and radio broadcaster of history and folklore in Palestine.^[1][2] Besides publishing original articles, travel guides and phrasebooks in English and German, and broadcasting in Arabic, Stephan also produced several translations of books and inscriptions, utilizing his fluency in all these languages, as well as Ottoman Turkish and Syriac.^[3] Educated at the Schneller School, a German Protestant orphanage that operated in Jerusalem, he worked for the Mandatory Palestine authorities, first in the Treasury, and then in the Department of Antiquities.^[4]