Adalbert Bezzenberger (14 April 1851 – 31 October 1922) was a

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. He was born at

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and died at

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. He is considered to be the founder of Baltic philology.Bezzenberger, Adalbert
In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, , S. 213. He studied the Indo-Germanic languages at the universities of

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and

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. In 1874 he became lecturer at Göttingen and in 1879

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at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg () was the university of Königsberg in Duchy of Prussia, which was a fief of Poland. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant Reformation, Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke A ...

. From 1890 to 1891 he was rector of this university.

Published works

His principal works include: * ''Beiträge zur Geschichte der Litauischen Sprache auf Grund litauischer Texte des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts'', Göttingen: Peppmüller, 1877. * ''Litauische Forschungen. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Sprache und des Volkstumes der Litauer'', Göttingen: Peppmüller, 1882. * ''Lettische Dialektstudien'', Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1885. * ''Über der Sprache der Preußischen Letten'', Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1888. * ''Die Kurische Nehrung und ihre Bewohner'', Stuttgart: Engelhorn, 1889 (=Forschungen zur deutschen Landes- und Volkskunde; vols. 3-4) * ''Sitzungsbericht der Altertumsgeschichte Prussia'' (1892) * ''Analysen vorgeschichtlicher Bronzen Ostpreussens. An ihrem 60jährigen Stiftungstage dem Andenken ihres ehemaligen Vorsitzenden Georg Bujak gewidmet von der Altertumsgesellschaft Prussia'', Königsberg: Gräfe & Unzer, 1904. (as editor) * ''Beiträge zur Kunde der Indogermanischen Sprachen'' (1877–1906; as editor)

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* * 1851 births 1922 deaths Balticists Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni University of Göttingen alumni German philologists Linguists of Baltic languages Linguists of Indo-European languages Writers from Kassel People from the Electorate of Hesse Academic staff of the University of Königsberg German male writers Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities {{Germany-writer-stub