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3 unusual facts about Albert Samuel Gatschet


Albert Samuel Gatschet

Albert Samuel Gatschet (October 3, 1832, Beatenberg, Canton of Bern – March 16, 1907) was a Swiss-American ethnologist who trained as a linguist in the universities of Bern and Berlin, but later moved to the United States in order to study Native American languages, in which field he was a pioneer.

His study of the Klamath people located in present-day Oregon, published in 1890, is recognized as outstanding.

Daniel Garrison Brinton

Of the eight volumes; six were edited by Brinton himself, one by Horatio Hale and one by Albert Samuel Gatschet.



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