August Friedrich Pott
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August Friedrich Pott (14 November 1802 in Nettelrede, Hanover – 5 July 1887 in Halle) was a German pioneer in linguistics.
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[edit]- Similarly Pott was led to exclaim: “Out of the East came the light! . . . the march of civilization has always tended to follow the light of the sun.”
- Pott, 1833–1836, vol. 1, p. xxi.quoted in Jean-Paul Demoule - The Indo-Europeans_ Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West
