Westermann, Diedrich, 1875-1956
Contributed to
fj22Nuer customs and folklore
Nuer customs and folkloreBook 1931
fj23Introduction
Introductionbook chapter 1912
- Summary
- Diedrich Hermann Westermann was a German missionary, Africanist, and linguist. He substantially extended and revised the work of Carl Meinhof, his teacher, although he rejected some of Meinhof's theories only implicitly. Westermann is seen as one of the founders of modern African linguistics. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1]VIAF[2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)[3]Bibliothèque nationale de France[4]Library of Congress[5]Wikidata
- Born
- 1875-06-24 [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)[5]Wikidata
- Birth Place
- Baden (Achim, Verden) [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- Baden, Lower Saxony [5]Wikidata
- Died
- 1956-05-31 [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)[5]Wikidata
- Death Place
- Baden, Lower Saxony [5]Wikidata
- Country
- Germany [2]Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- Language
- German [3]Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Occupation
- linguist [5]Wikidata
- university teacher [5]Wikidata
- missionary [5]Wikidata
- ethnologist [5]Wikidata
- Africanist [5]Wikidata
- botanist [5]Wikidata
- Employer
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [5]Wikidata
- North German Missionary Society [5]Wikidata
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [5]Wikidata
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]Wikidata
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. Wikidata
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