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BLEEK, WILHELM HEINRICH IMMANUEL (1827-1875)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 56 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BLEEK, WILHELM HEINRICH IMMANUEL (1827-1875) , German philologist, son of
Friedrich
  Bleek, was born in 1827 at Berlin. He studied first at
Bonn
  and afterwards at Berlin, where his attention was directed towards the philological peculiarities of the
South
 
African
  languages. In his
doctor
 's dissertation (
Bonn
 , 1851), De nominum generibus linguarum Africae Australis, he endeavoured to show that the Hottentot language was of North
African
  descent. In 1854 his health prevented him accompanying Dr W. B. Baikie in the expedition to the Niger; but in the following year he accompanied Bishop Colenso to
Natal
 , and was enabled to prosecute his researches into the language and customs of the Kaffirs. Towards the close of 1856 he settled at Cape Town, and in 1857 was appointed interpreter by Sir George Grey. In 1859 he was compelled by ill-health to visit Europe, and on his return in the following year he was made librarian of the valuable collection of books presented to the colony by Sir George Grey. In 1869 he visited England, where the value of his services was recognized by a pension from the civil
list
 . He died at Cape Town on the 17th of August 1875. His works, which are of considerable importance for African and Australian philology, consist of the Vocabulary of the
Mozambique
  Language (London, 1856); Handbook of African, Australian and Polynesian Philology (Cape Town and; London, 3 vols., 1858-1863); Comparative Grammar of the
South
  African Languages (vol. i., London, 1869); Reynard the Fox in South Africa, or Hottentot Fables and Tales (London, 1864); Origin of Language (London, 1869).


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