Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck (18 October 1866, in

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– 12 August 1951, in

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

) was a Dutch linguist and anthropologist with a wide variety of research interests. His published work included books and articles on Germanic and Balto-Slavic languages,

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, Basque, and the

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. He served as a lecturer at

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. In 1904 Uhlenbeck became member of the

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. In the summer of 1911, C.C. Uhlenbeck visited the

Indian reservation in

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to conduct field work. He was accompanied by his wife, Wilhelmina Maria Uhlenbeck, whose diary was later incorporated into their book about this expedition."Montana 1911", by Wilhelmina Maria Uhlenbeck-Melchior, Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck, Mary Eggermont-Molenaar. Partial tex
on Google Books
This is the English translation published by University of Calgary Press, 2005. .

Bibliography

*Uhlenbeck, C.C. ''A Concise Blackfoot Grammar Based on Material from the Southern Peigans'', New York: AMS, 1978. (Originally published 1938 by Hollandsche Uitgevers-Maatschappij, Amsterdam, in series ''Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam'', Afdeeling Letterkunde. Nieuwe Reeks, Deel XLI) OCLC: 3097417 *Uhlenbeck, C.C. ''An English-Blackfoot Vocabulary'', New York: AMS, 1979. (Originally published 1930 in series: ''Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam'', Afd. Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, Deel 29, No. 4) *Uhlenbeck, C.C. and R.H. van Gulik. ''A Blackfoot-English Vocabulary Based on Material from the Southern Peigans'', Amsterdam: Uitgave van de N.V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers-Jaatschapp-ij, 1934. (''Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie Van WetenSchappen te Amsterdam''. Afdeeling Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, Deel XXXIII, No. 2) *

References

1866 births 1951 deaths Linguists from the Netherlands Dutch anthropologists People from Haarlem Leiden University alumni Academic staff of Leiden University Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Basque-language scholars Linguists of Algic languages Paleolinguists Dutch expatriates in the United States {{Netherlands-linguist-stub