Jakob Jud
u:t(12 January 1882 in
Wängi, Kanton
Thurgau
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Thurgau is pa ...
– 15 June 1952 in
Seelisberg, Kanton
Uri) was a
Swiss
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Romance linguist
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(
Romanist).
From 1922 to 1950 he taught classes in Romance philology and Old French literature at the
University of Zürich. With
Karl Jaberg, he was the author of ''Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz'' (8 volumes, 1928–40). In 1936, with Arnald Steiger, he founded the magazine ''Vox Romanica''.
He became a foreign member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1946.
References
Linguists from Switzerland
1882 births
1952 deaths
Romance philologists
Members of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique
Members of the Institute for Catalan Studies