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About Sigismund Koelle
Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle or Kölle was a German missionary working on behalf of the London-based Church Missionary Society, at first in Sierra Leone, where he became a pioneer scholar of the languages of Africa, and later in Constantinople (Istanbul). He published a major study in 1854, Polyglotta Africana, marking the beginning of serious study by Europeans of African languages.
Everything about Sigismund Koelle →- Occupation
- linguist, Africanist, missionary
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- Born
- July 14, 1820
- Died
- February 18, 1902