Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck

Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck (Voorburg, the Netherlands, 18 October 1866 Lugano, Switzerland, 12 August 1951) was a Dutch linguist and anthropologist with a wide variety of research interests. His published work included books and articles on Germanic and Balto-Slavic languages, Sanskrit, Basque, and the Blackfoot language of North American Indians. He served as a lecturer at Leiden University.

In 1904 Uhlenbeck became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1]

In the summer of 1911, Dr. C.C. Uhlenbeck visited the Blackfoot Indian reservation in Montana to conduct field work. He was accompanied by his wife, Wilhelmina Maria Uhlenbeck, whose diary was later incorporated into their book about this expedition.[2]

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  1. "Christianus Cornelis Uhlenbeck (1866 - 1951)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  2. "Montana 1911", by Wilhelmina Maria Uhlenbeck-Melchior, Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck, Mary Eggermont-Molenaar. Partial text on Google Books. This is the English translation published by University of Calgary Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55238-114-5.


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