| Code | DS/UK/1793 |
| Dates | 23/07/1857-11/02/1944 |
| Person Name | Meinhof; Carl Friedrich Michael (23/07/1857-11/02/1944); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Meinhof |
| Forenames | Carl Friedrich Michael |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Pastor and Linguist, specialized in African Languages. Professor at Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen of the Universität Berlin (1905); Chair of African Languages at Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen Hamburg (1909-1936). |
| Relationships | Son of Friedrich Meinhof (1800–1881) and Clara Christiane Meinhof, née Giesebrecht; married Elly Heyer, divorced (1882-1894); married Anna Kloss (1895); father of Johannes Meinhof and other 11 children; granduncle of Ulrike Meinhof (1934-1976). |
| History | Studied Linguistics at the Universities of Greifswald and Tübingen; doctoral dissertation; habilitation. |
| Source | Meyer-Bahlburg, Hilke and Wolff, Eckehard: Afrikanische Sprachen in Forschung und Lehre: 75 Jahre Afrikanistik in Hamburg (1909-1984). Berlin 1986; Jungraithmayr, Herrman and Möhlig, Wilhelm J.G. (editors), Lexikon der Afrikanistik, Berlin 1983; Pugach, Sara, „Christianize“ and Conquerer: Carl Meinhof, German Evangelical Missionaries, And The Debate over African Languages 1905-19010, in: Ulrich van der Heyden; Jürgen Becher: Mission und Gewalt. Steiner Verlag, 2000. |
Show related catalogue records.