Sigismund Koelle

Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle (* July 14, 1820 in Cleebronn, † February 18, 1902 in London) was a missionary and linguist.

Life and work

He enters 1841 in Basel Mission House a, but he changed in 1845 to the Church Missionary Society (CMS). In 1847 he is in Sierra Leone and accumulated there in addition to a teaching language material.

His main work Polyglotta Africana is a pioneer work for comparative linguistic research of African languages ​​.

Publications

  • Narrative of an expedition into the Vy country of West Africa and the discovering of a system of syllabic writing recently inventid by the narrative of Vy, London, 1849.
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