August Pott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

August Pott

German linguist

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1802

Place of Birth: Nettelrede, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 05-Apr-1887

Profession: university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

August Friedrich Pott (14 November 1802 in Nettelrede, Hanover – 5 July 1887 in Halle) was a German pioneer in linguistics. Pott was a theology student at the University of Göttingen, where he became interested in philology.
He became a schoolmaster in Celle, but completed his doctoral dissertation in 1827 and went to the University of Berlin to study with Franz Bopp, an important pioneer in Indo-European linguistics.
He became an unsalaried lecturer in general linguistics there in 1830 and became the professor of general linguistics at the University of Halle in 1833, where he remained for the rest of his life. His works, notably Etymologische Forschungen (1834–1836), established the modern etymological studies on the basis of the correspondence of sounds occurring in related words in the Indo-European languages.
He is also considered the nineteenth century's most important philologist of Romany, the language of the Romani people.