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August Friedrich Pott

Dr
August Friedrich Pott
Pott, August Friedrich.jpg
Born 1802
Died 1887
Residence Halle
Occupation linguist
Society Membership
membership ESL paper only
ASL Corresponding member 1866.01.16
AI Corresponding member; Hon. Fellow
left 1887 deceased
elected_ESL -
elected_AI 1881.12.13
elected_ASL 1866.01.06

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1881.11.22 proposed as Hon. Member

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August Friedrich Pott (* November 14 1802 in Nettelrede ; † July 5 1887 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German linguist .

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His first published in 1833 Etymological research (reprint 1999), he built a six-volume work on the Indo-European languages, especially via the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian and Gothic from (1859-1876). He published a three-volume work on personal and place names, several studies of number words (1847-1859) and a prejudice-free two-volume work on The Gypsies in Europe and Asia, taking into account the then " argot "(1844/45). An overview of the contemporary state of linguistics offers Potts introduction to general linguistics (1884). [1]

House Publications

abstract of paper on the Gypsies read 24 June 1848
The Gypsies. Read 22 Nov. 1848

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