ROTHKIRCH-PANTHEN, Hugo Bernhard Sigismund, Freiherr von. Breslau 22.4.1812 — Breslau 16.3.1868. German Astronomer, also interested in Linguistics. Of Silesian nobility. After Ritterakademie Liegnitz and Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau studies at Breslau. Began with law, but also took European and classical languages and mathematics and eventually astronomy. Worked as calculator in Breslau observatory.
Publications: “Über Ursprung und Sprache der Zigeuner”, Jahres-Bericht de Schlesischen Ges. für Vaterländische Kultur 33, Breslau 1855, 213-228?.
Sources:
Th. Delsner, Jahresbericht der Schles. Ges. für vaterländische Cultur 1869, 291f.; German Wikipedia.
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