Karl Christian Sigismund Bernhardi (5 October 1799,

Ottrau Ottrau is a municipality in the Schwalm-Eder-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. Geography Ottrau lies about 10 km northeast of Alsfeld. Constituent communities The community of Ottrau is made up of six constituent communities: * Ottrau: 730 ...

– 1 August 1874,

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

) was a German librarian and politician. He studied theology at the University of Marburg, and afterwards worked as a private tutor in Brussels. He furthered his education at the State University of Leuven, where he subsequently received the post of university librarian. In 1829 he relocated to

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In Kassel he was deeply involved with political, social and cultural concerns. In 1834 he co-founded the ''Anstalt zur Erziehung armer und verwahrloster Knaben'', an institution that dealt with the education of underprivileged youth. He was an editor of the liberal newspaper ''Der Verfassungsfreund'', and in 1834 was co-founder of the ''Vereins für hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde'' (Association for Hessian history and regional studies). From 1835 to 1840 he served as director of the Kassel citizens' committee and in 1848 was elected to the Frankfurt Parliament. The eponymous ''Karl-Bernhardi-Strasse'', located behind the Fridericianum in Kassel, is named in his honor. In 1844 he published a "language map" of Germany, ''Sprachkarte von Deutschland'' (2nd edition, 1849 with Wilhelm Stricker) — a work that helped spark interest in the linguistic study of

German dialects German dialects are the various traditional local varieties of the German language. Though varied by region, those of the southern half of Germany beneath the Benrath line are dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant ...

. His other noteworthy publications include: * ''Wegweiser durch die deutschen Volks- und Jugendschriften'' (with August Lüben), 1852 – Guide to German popular and young peoples' writings. * ''Die Sprachgrenze zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich'', 1871 – The language border between Germany and France. Bernhardi was the author of numerous articles in the ''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bernhardi, Karl 1799 births 1874 deaths State University of Leuven alumni People from Schwalm-Eder-Kreis German librarians Linguists from Germany 19th-century linguists University of Marburg alumni Members of the Frankfurt Parliament