Gottfried Hensel
Gottfried Hensel (1687–1765) was a German linguist, working in comparative linguistics.

He worked as rector in Hirschberg (Jelenia Góra), Lower Silesia.

Hensel is best known for his work Synopsis Universae Philologiae.

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1687 births
1765 deaths
18th-century linguists
18th-century German writers
18th-century German male writers
Linguists from Germany
German educational theorists
18th-century writers in Latin