August Friedrich Pott, a German philologist, born at Nettelrede, near Hanover, Nov. 14, 1802. He studied in Hanover and at the university of Gottingen, and was a teacher in the gymnasium of Celle from 1825 to 1827, when he went to Berlin, where he was admitted as Docent. Since 1833 he has been professor of philology at Halle. He is a follower of Grimm and Wilhelm von Humboldt, and his Etymolo-gische Forschungen auf dem Gebiete der indo-germanischen Sprachen (2 vols., Lemgo, 1833-'6; revised ed., 4 vols., Detmold, 1867-'73) ranks next to Bopp's Vergleichende Gramma-tik, introducing a new era in comparative philology. Among his other works are: Die Zi-geuner in Europa und Asien (2 vols. Halle, 1844-'5); Die quinare und vigesimale Zahl-methode dei Volkern alter Welttheile (1847); Die Personennamen, insbesondere die Familien-namen und ihre Entstehungsarten (Leipsic, 1853; 2d ed., with an index, 1859); Die Un-gleicliheit der rnenschlichen Eassen (Lemgo, 1862); Anti-Kaulen (1863); and Die Sprach-verschiedenheiten in Europa an den Zahlen nachgewiesen (Halle, 1868).