Otto Dempwolff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Otto Dempwolff

German linguist and anthropologist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1871

Place of Birth: Baltiysk, Russia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1938

Profession: university teacher, anthropologist, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Otto Dempwolff

  • Otto Dempwolff (25 May 1871 in Pillau, Province of Prussia – 27 November 1938, in Hamburg) was a German linguist and anthropologist who wrote about Austronesian languages.
  • He was the first to publish a theory proposing that many languages that are spoken on the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean can be traced back to one proto-language.

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