Carl Velten

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Carl Velten (born September 4, 1862 in Fluterschen , † April 1, 1935 in Woking , County of Surrey ) was a German linguist and specialist in East African languages. He taught at the Institute for Oriental Languages ​​at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin.

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Life

Velten was born in 1862 in Fluterschen in the Altenkirchen district of the Prussian Rhine Province . After studying linguistics at the universities of Bonn and Tübingen , he traveled to North Africa . At the seminar for oriental languages in Berlin he prepared for civil service in the German colonies .

From 1893 to 1896 he worked as an interpreter for the German colonial administration in East Africa . On his travels through the country he collected stories and tales which he wrote down in shorthand .

After Velten had become a lecturer at the seminar for oriental languages ​​in 1896, he evaluated his notes in a series of publications. The main focus of his work was on the Swahili language.

Velten was a member of the Landsmannschaft Nassovia Bonn , since 1949 Landsmannschaft Teutonia Bonn .

Fonts (selection)

  • Swahili fairy tales and stories. (Suahelitext: Volume XVIII of the textbooks of the Oriental Seminary), Berlin 1898.
  • Customs of Swahili. 1898.
  • Explanation of some East African place names. 1898.
  • The language of Wahehe, grammar and dictionary. 1899.
  • Kikami, the language of the Wakami in German East Africa. 1900.
  • The nicknames of Europeans among the Swahili. 1900.
  • Grammar of Kinyamuesi, the language of the Wanyamuesi in German East Africa, including a dictionary. 1901.
  • Practical guide to learning the Swahili Arabic script. Goettingen 1901.
  • Swahili travel descriptions. Goettingen 1901.
  • Swahili customs and traditions, together with legal beliefs. Goettingen 1903.
  • Hundred Swahili puzzles. 1904.
  • Swahili prose and poetry. Berlin 1907.
  • Practical Swahili grammar and a German-Swahili dictionary. 3rd edition, Berlin 1910.
  • Swahili dictionary. 1st part, Swahili-German, Berlin 1910.
  • Swahili phrasebook for postal workers. Berlin 1910.
  • Pocket dictionary of the Swahili language, Swahili-German and German-Swahili. Berlin 1911.

literature

  • Carl Velten . in: German Colonial Lexicon. 1920, Volume III, p. 602.
  • Eternal directory of the Landsmannschaft Teutonia Bonn from 1844 in the Coburg Convent.

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Velten  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 320.
  2. ↑ http://www.teubo.de/history/0304.htm
personal data
SURNAME Velten, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and specialist in East African languages
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Floodlight
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1935
Place of death Woking , County Surrey