# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sigismund-koelle
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:28:02.237Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sigismund-koelle"
name: "Sigismund Koelle"
slug: "sigismund-koelle"
description: "Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle or Kölle was a German missionary working on behalf of the London-based Church Missionary Society, at first in Sierra Leone, where he became a pioneer scholar of the languages of Africa, and later in Constantinople (Istanbul). He published a major study in 1854, Polyglotta Africana, marking the beginning of serious study by Europeans of African languages."
tagline: "German academic (1820-1902)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sigismund_Koelle.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1820-07-14"
deathDate: "1902-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             14.90161725067385
  historical:           11.14121733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Сигізмунд Келле"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Wilhelm_Koelle"
    title: "Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Koelle"
    title: "Sigismund Koelle"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Koelle"
    title: "Sigismund Koelle"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Koelle"
    title: "Sigismund Koelle"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Koelle"
    title: "Sigismund Koelle"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Koelle"
    title: "Sigismund Koelle"
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismundus_Gulielmus_Koelle"
    title: "Sigismundus Gulielmus Koelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Wilhelm_K%C3%B6lle"
    title: "Sigismund Wilhelm Kölle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Wilhelm_K%C3%B6lle"
    title: "Sigismund Wilhelm Kölle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Wilhelm_Koelle"
    title: "Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%91%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B4_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump