Gottlob Adolf Krause (January 5, 1850 in
Ockrilla
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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1850 births
1938 deaths
People from Meissen (district)
People from the Kingdom of Saxony
Linguists from Germany
German Africanists
German emigrants to Switzerland