German missionary and scholar of languages of Africa
Photograph of Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle, from Robert Needham Cust ‘A sketch of the modern languages of Africa’ (1883)
Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle or Kölle (July 14, 1820[1] – February 18, 1902) 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.
^Deutsche Biographie. But some sources give 1823, e.g. König, C. in Stammerjohann (2009) (ed), p. 823; Houis (1966), p. 137.
Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle or Kölle (July 14, 1820 – February 18, 1902) was a German missionary working on behalf of the London-based Church Missionary Society...
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Africana is a study published in 1854 by the German missionary Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle (1823–1902), in which the author compares 280 words from 200 African...
the Hare, is the mischievous main character, volume 2, page 375ff. SigismundKoelle, African Native Literature, London, 1854, reprinted by Books for Libraries...
words and phrases of the language was made by the German missionary SigismundKoelle who, working in Sierra Leone in West Africa, interviewed some 160 former...
historical study on the origin and formation of the French language) (1850) SigismundKoelle, Polyglotta Africana (1856) Count Franz Xaver von Miklosisch, Vergleichende...
Leone and worked with the German missionary SigismundKoelle in creating a Kanuri grammar. In addition, Koelle recorded Eisami's stories of his life, composing...
such as Aloys Sprenger, Theodor Noldeke, Gustav Weil, William Muir, SigismundKoelle, Grimme [de] and D.S. Margoliouth "give us a more correct and unbiased...
Egbo-Sharry Country. The first written mention of the Anaangs is in SigismundKoelle's account of liberated slaves in Sierra Leone. He mentioned a liberated...
as opposed to one that remained the same. The Christian missionary SigismundKoelle and the former Muslim Ibn Warraq have criticized Muhammad's actions...
phrases, in three different dialects, was made by the German missionary SigismundKoelle working in Sierra Leone, and published as part of his work Polyglotta...
order tends to be SVO. The Atlantic family was first identified by SigismundKoelle in 1854. In the early 20th century, Carl Meinhof claimed that Fula...
report" (PDF). Statistics Sierra Leone. October 2017. pp. 89–99. Koelle, Sigismund Wilhelm (1854). Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language, together...
in the Missionary Herald of the ABCFM and independently by Rev. Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle, a Sierra Leone agent of the Church Missionary Society of London...
Customs In Africa, which included approximately 250 Igbo words. In 1854, SigismundKoelle published Polyglotta Africana, featuring 300 Igbo words in five different...
– Friedrich von Spiegel, German orientalist (died 1905) 14 July – SigismundKoelle, German missionary (died 1902) 8 August – Julius Stern, German composer...
February – Charles Alexander, cricketer (born 1847) 18 February – SigismundKoelle, missionary (born 1820 in Germany) 26 February – Edward Henry Cooper...
of Oti-Volta branch and some others have three phonemic tones. Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle first mentions twelve Gur languages in his 1854 Polyglotta Africana...
Natural Genesis – Vol.1. Cosimo, Inc. p. 73. ISBN 978-1-60206-084-5. Koelle, Sigismund Wilhelm (1854). African Native Literature. p. 275. OL 24821270M. "The...
Language. A Reference Grammar. Madison: University of Wisconsin. Koelle, Sigismund Wilhelm 1854. Grammar of the Bornu or Kanuri Language. London: Church...
"goat" and "cultivate". The group was first recognized in 1854 by Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle, in his Polyglotta Africana. He mentioned 13 languages under the...
tennis courts to play and a further one to play beach-volleyball. Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle (1820-1902), missionary and linguistic researcher Carl Krauch (1853-1934)...
under freed slaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone, is published by Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle. William Harrison Ainsworth – The Flitch of Bacon Margaret Jewett...
Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara. polyglottaafricana 5136890 Koelle, Sigismund W. (1854). Polyglotta Africana or Comparative Vocabulary of Nearly...
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