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Gottlieb William Leitner war ein Orientalist.

✵ 14. Oktober 1840 – 22. März 1899
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“If the man laughs, change the Order.”

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Writings of Dr. Leitner, Chapter: On the Science of Language and Ethnography, p. 173

“A good deal of our misconception with regard to the difficulty of the inquiry lies in ourselves that ideas of multitude connected with the peculiar customs of the race that have yet to be ascertained, are at the bottom of the inability of that race to follow our numeration.”

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Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner

Writings of Dr. Leitner, Chapter: On the Science of Language and Ethnography, p. 173

“Many disasters can be traced to our linguistic shortcomings. Millions of money and multitudes of men have been sacrificed in order to save the prestige of a mistake in translation committed "by authority."”

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Writings of Dr. Leitner, Chapter: Oriental Translations of English Texts, p. 151

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