born July 23, 1857, Barzwitz, near Schlawe, Pomerania, Prussia
died Feb. 10, 1944, Greifswald, Ger.
German scholar of African languages.
A specialist in the Bantu languages who also studied phonetics and morphology . His books include Outline of the Phonetics of the Bantu Languages (1899) and Principles of the Comparative Grammar of the Bantu Languages (1906).