August Friedrich Pott
1802–87
German linguist and philologist. A founder of Indo-European historical linguistics. Lecturer in linguistics, University of Berlin, 1830–3. Professor of linguistics at the University of Halle from 1833.
Sources
DBE
EB.
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
EB: The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11.
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