Christian Gottlieb Teichelmann

Christian Gottlieb Teichelmann (born December 15, 1807 in Dahme / Mark , † May 31, 1888 in Stansbury, Yorke Peninsula ( Australia )) was a missionary and linguist in Australia.

Live and act

Teichelmann came from a Dahmer master cloth maker family and was born in Dahme on December 15, 1807. He went to school here until he was fourteen and then began an apprenticeship as a carpenter. From 1829 he studied in Berlin and Dresden and joined the Dresden Mission . From 1839 he worked as a missionary in the Australian state of South Australia with the Kaurna , a tribe of the Aborigines. Here he made friends with Mullawirraburka , the tribal leader, and learned the language of the tribe from him. He published the main features of the Kaurna language in two books that are still fundamental to this day and thus received this language for posterity.

In 1866 he retired to the Yorke Peninsula , where he died in 1888.

Works

• Outlines of a Grammar, Vocabulary and Phraseology of the Aboriginal Language of South Australia Spoken by the Natives in and for Some Distance Around Adelaide (with Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann), Adelaide, 1840
• Aboriginals of South Australia: Illustrative and Explanatory Note of the Manners, Customs, Habits and Superstitions of the Natives of South Australia , Adelaide, 1841

literature

• Wilhelm KH Schmidt: A Dahmer cloth maker son - savior of the Aboriginal language in the official gazette for the Dahme / Mark office
  • Part 1: November 29, 2013, No. 27/2013, p. 8
  • Part 2: December 20, 2013, No. 29/2013, pp. 15/16
  • 3rd part: 31.01.2014, No. 02/2014, p. 6 and 8th
  • 4th part: 02/21/2014, No. 05/2014, pp. 21/22