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Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle or Kölle (July 14, 1820[1] – February 18, 1902) was a German missionary working on behalf of the London-based Church Missionary Society, at first in Sierra Leone, where he became a pioneer scholar of the languages of Africa, and later in Constantinople (Istanbul). He published a major study in 1854, Polyglotta Africana, marking the beginning of serious study by Europeans of African languages.
- ^ Deutsche Biographie. But some sources give 1823, e.g. König, C. in Stammerjohann (2009) (ed), p. 823; Houis (1966), p. 137.