Gottlob Adolf Krause (January 5, 1850 in
Ockrilla near
Meissen
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– February 19, 1938 in
Zürich
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[''Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft'', Vol. 93, ]Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
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, Kommissionsverlag F. Steiner, 1966, p. 162. was a German
Africanist and
linguist
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Research
Krause researched languages of Central and West Africa, and is credited with labeling the
Kwa languages
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Political Beliefs
Krause was an anti-colonialist, and did not cooperate with the
German Empire's goals of imposing colonies in Africa.
Akinwumi cites
this as the reason for which Krause's scientific reputation was undermined in Germany.
Works
* ''Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der fulischen Sprache in Afrika''. In: ''Mitteilungen der Riebeckschen Nigerexpedition'' (1884),
* ''Proben der Sprache von Ghat in der Sahara'' (Leipzig, 1884).
* ''Die Musuksprache in Centralafrika''. In: ''Veröffentlichungen der Wiener Akademie''. Wien (1886),
* ''Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Klimas von Salaga, Togo und der Goldküste''. ''Abhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher (Halle/Saale)'', 93 (3) (1910), pp. 193–472.
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1850 births
1938 deaths
People from Meissen (district)
People from the Kingdom of Saxony
19th-century German linguists
German Africanists
German emigrants to Switzerland