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Carl Meinhof was the great-uncle (the brother of the grandfather) of Ulrike Meinhof, a founding member of the German Red Army Faction (RAF), a left-wing militant group, which operated in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.
Carl Meinhof (born July 23, 1857, Barzwitz, near Schlawe, Pomerania, Prussia [now in Poland]—died February 10, 1944, Greifswald, Germany) was a German scholar of African languages and among the first Europeans to study them systematically.
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Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof (* 23. Juli 1857 in Barzwitz bei Rügenwalde in Hinterpommern; † 11. Februar 1944 [1] in Greifswald) war ein evangelischer Pastor und Afrikanist . Carl Meinhof wurde 1919 an der Universität Hamburg Inhaber des ersten Lehrstuhls für Afrikanistik in Deutschland.
Nov 1, 2009 · An introduction to the study of African languages. by. Meinhof, Carl, 1857-1944; Werner, Alice, 1859-1935, tr; Struck, Bernhard, 1888- Publication date. 1915. Topics. African languages. Publisher. London : J.M. Dent & Sons ; New York : E.P. Dutton. Collection. cornell; americana. Contributor. Cornell University Library. Language. English. Item Size
Meinhof was a German expert in African linguistics and former pastor, and he had died in February 1944. Communications from Germany had been interrupted during World War II, and news of Meinhof’s death had just reached Africa’s southern tip.
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Introduction to the Phonology of the Bantu Languages. By Carl Meinhof. Translated, revised, and enlarged in collaboration with the author and DrAlice Werner, by N. J. v. Warmelo. pp. 248, 1 map. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen). London: Williams & Norgate, Ltd., 1932. - Volume 7 Issue 1
The influence of German linguist Carl Meinhof on the work of his student, Nicholas van Warmelo, was substantial and has been underexplored. They met in the 1920s, when van Warmelo went to the University of Hamburg to study under Meinhof and was essentially 'groomed' to join his faculty of African and Pacific Languages. Van Warmelo never did
