Father Henry Cyril Dieckhoff (russian: Генрих Кирилл Дикхофф) (1869-1950) was a Russian Catholic priest and linguist. He was born in Moscow, the son of a Lutheran preacher, but spent much of his youth in Germany, as his mother was Catholic and unable to continue living in Russia.''Boy from Moscow'' on Catholic Herald 11 August 1950 He studied in Berlin and was given Holy Orders without permission from the Russian authorities and therefore first fled to England and then Scotland, where he was welcomed as a brother at the Fort Augustus Abbey in 1891. He gained priesthood six years laters in 1897. Fort Augustus Abbey - geograph

He learnt Scottish Gaelic and did detailed research into the dialect of

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and published a dictionary on the dialects, ''A Pronouncing Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic''.Dieckhoff, H. ''A Pronouncing Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic'' (1932) His dictionary was unusual for the time as it included detailed pronunciation information not only on the

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s but also inflected forms of the entries.

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Scottish Gaelic language 1869 births 1950 deaths 19th-century Roman Catholic priests from the Russian Empire Linguists from Russia {{russia-linguist-stub