"Notes on Neumayer's "Anleitung zu wissenschaftlichen Beobachtungen auf Reisen", Abschnitt "Linguistik""
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"Notes on Neumayer's "Anleitung zu wissenschaftlichen Beobachtungen auf Reisen", Abschnitt "Linguistik""
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Instructions on making scientific observations while travelling, Berlin 1875. Manuscript, only the passage about linguistics including long lists of words in German. The manuscript is not Christaller's handwriting, but from Christaller's papers.
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Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (Mr)Name: Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (Mr)
Basel mission membership number: 0357
Date of Birth: 19.11.1827
Date of Death: 16.12.1895
Biography: Christaller was sent out to Akropong to do linguistic research on the Twi language. He compiled a Twi grammar and dictionary, translated collections of Twi sayings and songs into English and translated the Bible into Twi. He was married twice.
Profession: administrative clerk (Schreiber)
Geographic references: Mission area: Ghana {mission area}
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92 pages
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D-80.03.04,02
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Reference: BMA D-80.03.04,02
Title: "Notes on Neumayer's "Anleitung zu wissenschaftlichen Beobachtungen auf Reisen", Abschnitt "Linguistik""
Creator: unknown
Date: 1875

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