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Diedrich Hermann Westermann

German missionary, Africanist, and linguist (1875-1956) · Germany · On the map · Academics · Died at 80

Diedrich Hermann Westermann was a German missionary, Africanist, and linguist. He substantially extended and revised the work of Carl Meinhof, his teacher, although he rejected some of Meinhof's theories only implicitly. Westermann is seen as one of the founders of modern African linguistics.

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