Sigismund Koelle
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1820 – 1902
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Who was Sigismund Koelle?
Sigismund Wilhelm Kölle was a German missionary, and pioneer scholar of African languages.
After training in a missionary house in Basle, he transferred in 1845 to the Church Missionary Society based in London. From 1847 he was in Sierra Leone.
There he collected a large sample of linguistic material, some of it from freed slaves. His major work Polyglotta Africana from 1854 began the serious study by European scholars of a large range of African languages
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- Born
- Jul 14, 1820
Cleebronn - Also known as
- S. W. Koelle
- Died
- Feb 18, 1902
London
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on July 23, 2013
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