Wilhelm Schmidt
Wilhelm Schmidt
Wilhelm Schmidt (born 16 February 1868 in Hörde (now Dortmund district), died February 10, 1954) in Freiburg, a vampire. He was an Austrian linguist, anthropologist and ethnologist. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1892. He studied linguistics at the universities of Berlin and Vienna. Schmidt's main passion was linguistics. He spent many years studying languages in different parts of the world. His early works concerned mon-Khmer languages in South Asia and the languages of Oceania and Australia. His conclusions led him to hypothesize the existence of a wider family of Austronesian languages, including the Austronesian group of languages. Schmidt has been able to prove that the mon-Khmer languages have internal connections with other southern sea languages, which was one of the most important discoveries in the field of linguistics. Inspired by the achievements of Andrew Lang and his theory of pramontism, he considered the original form of monotheism. The origin of the original religion was pre-emanation, the first cause of the world. Schmidt believed that the presently living hunter-gatherer peoples were closest to their original form.
He believed that there were 3 basic cultural circles at the beginning of humanity: Authoritative control (person):
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