Sigismund Wilhelm Kölle (1820–1902)

German missionary and linguist. Learned Hebrew at Tübingen University. Joined the Church Missionary Society in 1845 and was ordained at their college in Islington, London. In 1847, went to Sierra Leone, where he ran the Fourah Bay College. In Egypt, 1855, Palestine, 1855–62, Turkey, 1862–80. Won the Volney Prize for his Polyglotta Africana (1854).