August Friedrich Pott

August Friedrich Pott (14 November 1802 in Nettelrede, Hanover – 5 July 1887 in Halle) was a German pioneer in linguistics.

Quotes

 * Out of the East came the light! ... the march of civilization has always tended to follow the light of the sun.
 * Quoted in Jean-Paul Demoule, The Indo-Europeans: Archaeology, Language, Race, and the Search for the Origins of the West (2023)