
Friedrich Lorentz (18 December 1870,
Güstrow
Güstrow (; ) is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in north-eastern Germany. It is capital of the Rostock (district), Rostock district; Rostock itself is a district-free city and regiopolis.
It has a population of 28,999 (2020) and is the sevent ...
– 29 March 1937) was a German historian. He is the author of publications in the field of linguistics, as well as
Kashubian and
Slovincian culture. As he wrote, Kashubian is a language having 76 different
subdialect
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s.
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, 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
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