| LC control no. | nb2016005860 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Penka, Karl, 1847-1912 |
| Variant(s) | Penka, Carl, 1847-1912 |
| Associated country | Austria |
| Located | Vienna (Austria) |
| Birth date | 1847-10-26 |
| Death date | 1912-02-10 |
| Place of birth | Mohelnice (Czech Republic) |
| Place of death | Vienna (Austria) |
| Field of activity | Education Philology Anthropology |
| Affiliation | Maximiliansgymnasium Wien |
| Profession or occupation | Teachers Philologists Anthropologists |
| Found in | Origines Ariacae, 1883: t.p. (Karl Penka) Wikipedia, viewed 11 March 2016 (Karl Penka (26 October 1847-10 February 1912) was an Austrian philologist and anthropologist. Born in Müglitz, Moravia (now Mohelnice, Czech Republic), from 1873 until 1906 Penka was a master at the Maximiliansgymnasium, a high school for boys, in Vienna. Penka studied anthropology from the point of view of comparative linguistics and took a particular interest in the origins of the Indo-Europeans. Penka died in Vienna in 1912. He is now seen as a pioneer of racist and anti-Semitic theories in ethnology) BL database, viewed 11 March 2016 (hdg.: Penka, Carl) |
| Associated language | ger |
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