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Friedrich Müller (1834-1898) was a German linguist
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
 who originated the term Hamito-Semitic languages
Afro-Asiatic languages

The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 living languages and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Southwest Asia ....
, in relation with Afro-Asiatic languages
Afro-Asiatic languages

The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 living languages and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Southwest Asia ....
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According to the classification of the late Professor Friedrich Müller (1834-98), of the University of Vienna, followed by Dr. Robert Needham Cust
Robert Needham Cust

Robert Needham Cust was a British colonial administrator and linguist.He was educated at Eton College and East India Company College. He then worked for the British East India Company, in Hoshiarpur and Ambala, in India....
 (1821-1909), the main groups are: (1) The Semitic; (2) the Hamitic; (3) the Nuba-Fula; (4) the Nigerian or Negro languages; (5) the Bantu; and (6) the Hottentot-Bushman..


The prominent German zoologist Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel

'Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel' ,also written 'von Haeckel', was an eminent Germany biologist, natural history, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including phylum, ph...
 mentioned Müller when he formulated his own (racist) theory about higher and lower races:

The Caucasian, or Mediterranean man (Homo Mediterraneus), has from time immemorial been placed at the head of all the races of men, as the most highly developed and perfect.






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Friedrich Müller (1834-1898) was a German linguist
Linguistics

Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
 who originated the term Hamito-Semitic languages
Afro-Asiatic languages

The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 living languages and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Southwest Asia ....
, in relation with Afro-Asiatic languages
Afro-Asiatic languages

The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 living languages and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Southwest Asia ....
.
According to the classification of the late Professor Friedrich Müller (1834-98), of the University of Vienna, followed by Dr. Robert Needham Cust
Robert Needham Cust

Robert Needham Cust was a British colonial administrator and linguist.He was educated at Eton College and East India Company College. He then worked for the British East India Company, in Hoshiarpur and Ambala, in India....
 (1821-1909), the main groups are: (1) The Semitic; (2) the Hamitic; (3) the Nuba-Fula; (4) the Nigerian or Negro languages; (5) the Bantu; and (6) the Hottentot-Bushman..


The prominent German zoologist Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel

'Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel' ,also written 'von Haeckel', was an eminent Germany biologist, natural history, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including phylum, ph...
 mentioned Müller when he formulated his own (racist) theory about higher and lower races:

The Caucasian, or Mediterranean man (Homo Mediterraneus), has from time immemorial been placed at the head of all the races of men, as the most highly developed and perfect. It is generally called the Caucasian race, but as, among all the varieties of the species, the Caucasian branch is the least important, we prefer the much more suitable appellation proposed by Friedrich Müller, namely, that of Mediterranese. For the most important varieties of this species, which are moreover the most eminent actors in what is called “Universal History,” first rose to a flourishing condition on the shores of the Mediterranean.… This species alone (with the exception of the Mongolian) has had an actual history; it alone has attained to that degree of civilization which seems to raise men above the rest of nature. [Ernst Haeckel, The History of Creation, (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1914), II, 429.]


Bibliography


  • Grundriss der Sprachwissenschaft, 1876-1888. Facsimile reprint, 2004, ISBN 348712047X etc..