| LC control no. | no 92021781 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm) |
| Variant(s) | Koelle, Sigismund Wilhelm |
| See also | ʻAbd ʻÍsá |
| Associated country | Germany Sierra Leone Turkey |
| Birth date | 1820-07-14 |
| Death date | 1902-02-18 |
| Field of activity | Missions |
| Affiliation | Church Missionary Society |
| Profession or occupation | Missionaries |
| Found in | His Mohammed and Mohammedanism [MI] 1889: t.p. (S.W. Koelle, Ph. Dr.; corr. member, Royal Acad. of Sciences in Berlin; missionary of the Church Missionary Soc., Sierra Leone and Turkey) LC in OCLC, 9/3/92 (hdg.: Koelle, Sigismund Wilhelm; mlc usage: S.W. Koelle) BL database, viewed 18 July 2019 (hdg.: ʻAbd ʻÍsá, pseud. [i.e. Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle]) Wikipedia, viewed 18 July 2019 (Sigismund Wilhelm Kölle (July 14, 1820 - February 18, 1902) was a German missionary in Sierra Leone, where he became a pioneer scholar of the languages of Africa. He published a major study in 1854, Polyglotta Africana, marking the beginning of serious study by Europeans of African languages.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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