Friedrich Lorentz (18 December 1870,

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– 29 March 1937) was a German historian. He is the author of publications in the field of linguistics, as well as

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and

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culture. As he wrote, Kashubian is a language having 76 different

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Works

* ''Slovinzische Texte'' S.-Peterburg : Izdanìe Vtorogo Otdělenìâ Imperatorskoj Akademìi Nauk, 1905. * ''Kaszubi: kultura ludowa i język'', translated as ''The Cassubian Civilization'' by Friedrich Lorentz and A. Fischer with

Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński Tadeusz Lehr-Spławiński (September 20, 1891 – February 17, 1965) was a Polish linguist, scholar, and professor of Slavonic studies. He was twice elected rector of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków before and after the Nazi German occupat ...

, London, Faber and Faber, 1935.

References

* G. Stone ''Slav Outposts in Central European History: the Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs''. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, p. 286 1870 births 1937 deaths People from Güstrow People from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 20th-century German historians German male non-fiction writers Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences {{Germany-historian-stub