Dorothea Bleek
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Gender | Female |
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Date of birth | March 26,1873 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Mowbray |
Cape Town | |
South Africa | |
Died | Newlands |
Cape Town | |
South Africa | |
Parents | Wilhelm Bleek |
Grandparents | Friedrich Bleek |
Job | Anthropologist |
Books | Bushman dictionary |
Comparative Vocabularies of Bushman Languages | |
The Naron: A Bushman Tribe of the Central Kalahari | |
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ID | 1455009 |
Dorothea Bleek Life story
Dorothea Frances Bleek was a South African-born German anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen of southern Africa. She was born into her profession as the fifth daughter of Wilhelm Bleek, a pioneering philologist studying the languages and cultures of southern Africa in the late 1800s.