Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle

1820 – 1902

German missionary who was pioneering scholar of the languages of African languages

• Polyglotta Africana
• African native literature
• Food for reflection
• Grammar of the Bornu or Kanuri language
• Mohammed and Mohammedanism Critically Considered
• Narrative of an expedition into the Vy country of West Africa, and the discovery of a system of syllabic writing, recently invented by the natives of the Vy tribe
• Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language, together with a Vei-English vocabulary