Ernst Förstemann
Deceased Person
1822 – 1906
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Who was Ernst Förstemann?
Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann was a German historian, mathematician, Dr. of linguistic and librarian, director of the Saxon State Library in Dresden. He is known as a founder of onomastics and folk etymology studies in Germany, and also for his seminal contributions made in the early years of Mayanist research, towards the decipherment and understanding of calendrical elements in the pre-Columbian Maya script.
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- Born
- Sep 18, 1822
Gdańsk - Nationality
- Germany
- Died
- Nov 4, 1906
Charlottenburg
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on July 23, 2013
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