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Also Known As Diedrich Hermann Westermann
Born June 24, 1875 • Baden • Germany
Died May 31, 1956 (aged 80) • Baden • Germany
Notable Works “Die Sudansprachen” • “Völkerkunde von Afrika”
Subjects Of Study Africa • comparative linguistics • African languages • Sudanic languages • culture
Carl Meinhof
German linguist
Wilhelm Bleek
German linguist
Adalbert Kuhn
German scholar
Joseph H. Greenberg
American anthropologist and linguist
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
August Schleicher, engraving
August Schleicher
German linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
August Fick
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
Swiss-German linguist
Friedrich Christian Diez
German scholar
Julius Heinrich Klaproth
German orientalist
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
Hirt
Hermann Hirt
German linguist