Adalbert Bezzenberger (14 April 1851 – 31 October 1922) was a

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. He was born at

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and died at

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. He is considered to be the founder of Baltic philology.Bezzenberger, Adalbert
In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, , S. 213. He studied the Indo-Germanic languages at the universities of

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and

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. In 1874 he became lecturer at Göttingen and in 1879

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at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Prussi ...

. From 1890-91 he was

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of this university.

Published works

His principal works include: * ''Beiträge zur Geschichte der Litauischen Sprache auf Grund litauischer Texte des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts'', Göttingen: Peppmüller, 1877. * ''Litauische Forschungen. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Sprache und des Volkstumes der Litauer'', Göttingen: Peppmüller, 1882. * ''Lettische Dialektstudien'', Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1885. * ''Über der Sprache der Preußischen Letten'', Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1888. * ''Die Kurische Nehrung und ihre Bewohner'', Stuttgart: Engelhorn, 1889 (=Forschungen zur deutschen Landes- und Volkskunde; vols. 3-4) * ''Sitzungsbericht der Altertumsgeschichte Prussia'' (1892) * ''Analysen vorgeschichtlicher Bronzen Ostpreussens. An ihrem 60jährigen Stiftungstage dem Andenken ihres ehemaligen Vorsitzenden Georg Bujak gewidmet von der Altertumsgesellschaft Prussia'', Königsberg: Gräfe & Unzer, 1904. (as editor) * ''Beiträge zur Kunde der Indogermanischen Sprachen'' (1877-1906; as editor)

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* * 1851 births 1922 deaths Balticists Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni University of Göttingen alumni German philologists Linguists of Indo-European languages Writers from Kassel People from the Electorate of Hesse Academic staff of the University of Königsberg German male writers Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities {{Germany-writer-stub