Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle or Kölle (July 14, 1820 – February 18, 1902) was a German missionary working on behalf of the London-based Church Missionary Society, at first in Sierra Leone, where he became a pioneer scholar of the languages of Africa, and later in Constantinople (Istanbul). He published a major study in 1854, Polyglotta Africana, marking the beginning of serious study by Europeans of African languages. (From Wikipedia)
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Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): Mohammed and Mohammedanism, Critically Considered (London: Rivingtons, 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)- Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): 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 (London: Seeleys et al., 1849)
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Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): African native literature, or Proverbs, tales, fables, & historical fragments in the Kanuri or Bornu language. To which are added a translation of the above and a Kanuri-English vocabulary. (Church Missionary House, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)- Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): African native literature, or, Proverbs, tales, fables, & historical fragments in the Kanuri or Bornu language. To which are added a translation of the above and a Kanuri-English vocabulary. (Church Missionary House, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): Food for reflection : being an historical comparison between Mohammedanism and Christianity (London : Church Missionary House, 1865., 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): Grammar of the Bórnu or Kānurī language. (Church Missionary House, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): Mohammed and Mohammedanism (Rivingtons, 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language, together with a Vei-English vocabulary (Church missionary house, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language, together with a Vei-English vocabulary and an account of the discovery and nature of the Vei mode of syllabic writing. (Church Missionary House, 1968) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language; together with a Vei- English vocabulary and an Account of the discovery and nature of the Vei mode of syllabic writing. (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): Outlines of a grammar of the Vei language : together with a Vei-English vocabulary : and an account of the discovery and nature of the Vei mode of syllabic writing (Church Missionary House, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Koelle, S. W. (Sigismund Wilhelm): Polyglotta Africana : or, A comparative vocabulary of nearly three hundres words and phrases in more than one hundred distinct African languages. (Church Missionary House, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
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