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AUGUST FRIEDRICH POTT (1802–1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 210 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUST
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FRIEDRICH
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POTT (1802–1887)  ,
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German philologist, was
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born at Nettelrede,
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Hanover, on the 14th of
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November 1802 . He studied in
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Gottingen, and in 1825 became schoolmaster at
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Celle, Hanover; but after two years removed to
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Berlin, where he became privatdozent at the university . He studied
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comparative
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philology, and in 1883 was made
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professor at
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Halle, where he lived till his
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death on the 5th of
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July 1887 . His Etymologische Forschungen (1834–1836) entitled him to
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rank as
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Bopp's foremost
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disciple in the Indo-Germanic
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science of
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language .
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Pott also devoted much
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attention to the origins of the
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gipsies .

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