Gottfried Hensel

• Birth Year: 0000
• Country: German
• Biography: Gottfried Hensel (1687–1765) was a German linguist. His book Synopsis Universae Philologiae, published in 1741, was an early work on comparative linguistics, which strove to present all the world’s languages known at the time together with their writing systems. The book contained several maps showing the translation of the Lord’s Prayer into various languages. Cornell University Library has a photo of the maps, which I have digitally restored. You can see the final result below: