Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle

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

life and work

He joined the Basel Mission House in 1841 , but switched to the Church Missionary Society (CMS) as early as 1845 . In 1847 he is in Sierra Leone and collects language material while teaching. In 1855 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

His main work, Polyglotta Africana, is considered to be pioneering work in 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 invented by the narratives of Vy , London 1849.

literature

Hartmut Lohmann: Kölle, Sigismund Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 259-261. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Koelle, Sigismund Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kölle, Sigismund Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Missionary and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cleebronn
DATE OF DEATH	February 18, 1902
Place of death	London