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[4] [5] He died in Paris on 28 August 1835. Klaproth was an orientalist or an "Asiatologist," in that he had a good command not only of Chinese, but also Manchu, Mongolian, Sanskrit, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and even Caucasian languages.
Julius Heinrich von Klaproth. Born: Oct. 11, 1783, Berlin, Prussia [Germany] Died: Aug. 28, 1835, Paris, France (aged 51) Notable Works: “Asia polyglotta nebst Sprachatlas”. Subjects Of Study: Caucasian languages.
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1 December 1743 – 1 January 1817) was a German chemist. He trained and worked for much of his life as an apothecary , moving in later life to the university. His shop became the second-largest apothecary in Berlin, and the most productive artisanal chemical research center in Europe.
The writings from his travels were assembled and published after his death by the german Orientalist Julius Klaproth, who was in Potocki’s debt for having taken him under his protection and encouraged him to move to Paris in order to study with him and follow his work on the Orient.
The name of Johannes Emil Otto Klatt (1852-1903), Classical and Oriental philologist, Custodian at the Königliche Bibliothek in Berlin, and pioneer of Jaina Studies, has almost entirely disappeared from the records of 19th century intellectual history; despite the fact that, between 1873 and 1892, as librarian and bibliographer, he became one of...
- Peter F Kornicki
Klaproth (1743–1817), the owner of the pharmacy The White Swan in Berlin and member of the Academy of Sciences, an outstanding scientist – he discovered no less than four chemical elements, among them uranium.
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Julius Heinrich Klaproth. Berlin 1783 - Paris 1835. A German linguist, ethnographer, orientalist and explorer, and a friend of Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. Son of the chemist and mineralogist Martin Heinrich, he turned to the study of Eastern languages at a young age after abandoning Chemistry and Physics and began his career by publishing the ...
