Rudolf Prietze

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Memorial plaque for Prietze

Rudolf Prietze (born September 2, 1854 in Uchtenhagen , Altmark , † March 6, 1933 in Wernigerode ) was a German linguist. He devoted himself to the study of African languages , especially Hausa .

Life

Prietzes mother was Marie Luise Nachtigal , the sister of the Africa explorer Gustav Nachtigal .

Prietze studied at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen and became active in the Corps Franconia (III) Erlangen in 1876 . He received his doctorate as Dr. phil. With the other old men of his corps , he moved to the reconstituted Rhenania (II) Erlangen in 1894 . He lived in Berlin around 1910 . After returning from Africa he was a teacher at the German Colonial School for Agriculture, Commerce and Industry in Witzenhausen . He spent his twilight years in the Hohnstein Abbey in the Wernigerode district of Hasserode am Harz . He celebrated his 70th birthday there in 1924 in the company of specialist colleagues.

Works

  • A legacy of Barth and Nachtigal . Lecture at the Society for Geography in Berlin on May 21, 1917 (separate print Zs. D. Ges. 1918, 5/6) pp. 213–245.
  • Seal of Haussa . Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan. 1931), pp. 86-95

Honors

A memorial plaque was attached to the former Hohnstein Abbey in Wernigerode, Freiheit 1, in 2004 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kösener corps lists 1910, 39 , 166; 43 , 81
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 29 , 22

literature

  • Obituary for Rudolf Prietze . Journal for Native Languages ​​23 (1932/33), p. 231.
  • Karin Möse: Rudolf Prietze, a forgotten Africa researcher: a tribute to his 150th birthday . Wernigeröder Official Journal No. 8 of August 28, 2004, p. 14.

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personal data
SURNAME Prietze, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Uchtenhagen , Altmark
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1933
Place of death Wernigerode