Sigismund Koelle
Sigismund Wilhelm Kölle (July 14, 1820, Cleebronn-February 18, 1902, London) was a German missionary, and pioneer scholar of the languages of Africa.
After training in a missionary house in Basel, he transferred in 1845 to the Church Mission Society based in London. From 1847 he was in Sierra Leone, where he taught at Fourah Bay College.[1] There he collected a large sample of linguistic material, some of it from freed slaves. His major work, Polyglotta Africana (1854), began the serious study by European scholars of a large range of African languages
References
- ↑ Fyfe, Christopher (1972). Africanus Horton, West African Scientist and Patriot. Oxford University Press.
External links
- Hartmut Lohmann (1992). "Sigismund Koelle". In Bautz, Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 4. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 259–261. ISBN 3-88309-038-7.
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