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 | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| 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.