Gottlob Adolf Krause (January 5, 1850 in

Ockrilla, is a village in the district of Me ...

near Meissen – February 19, 1938 in

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich ...

)''Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft'', Vol. 93,

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft The Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (, ''German Oriental Society''), abbreviated DMG, is a scholarly organization dedicated to Oriental studies, that is, to the study of the languages and cultures of the Near East and the Far East, the broa ...

, Kommissionsverlag F. Steiner, 1966, p. 162. was a German Africanist and

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

Research

Krause researched languages of Central and West Africa, and is credited with labeling the

Kwa languages The Kwa languages, often specified as New Kwa, are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory Coast, across southern Ghana, and in central Togo. The name was introduced 1895 by Gottlob Kr ...

Political Beliefs

Krause was an anti-colonialist, and did not cooperate with the German Empire's goals of imposing colonies in Africa. Akinwumi cites this as the reason for which Krause's scientific reputation was undermined in Germany.

Works

* ''Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der fulischen Sprache in Afrika''. In: ''Mitteilungen der Riebeckschen Nigerexpedition'' (1884), * ''Proben der Sprache von Ghat in der Sahara'' (Leipzig, 1884). * ''Die Musuksprache in Centralafrika''. In: ''Veröffentlichungen der Wiener Akademie''. Wien (1886), * ''Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Klimas von Salaga, Togo und der Goldküste''. ''Abhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher (Halle/Saale)'', 93 (3) (1910), pp. 193–472.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Krause, Gottlob 1850 births 1938 deaths People from Meissen (district) People from the Kingdom of Saxony Linguists from Germany German Africanists German emigrants to Switzerland

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