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Jakob Jud

Swiss linguist
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Jakob Jud (born Jan. 12, 1882, Wängi, Switz.—died June 15, 1952, Zürich) was a Swiss linguist who used comparative linguistics to reconstruct cultural history. He taught French at the lyceum of Zürich from 1906 to 1922 and afterward was a professor of Romance languages at the University of Zürich. Jud mediated imaginatively between the linguistic traditions of Germany-Austria, France, and Italy, concentrating on the Rhaeto-Romance dialects, French, Provençal, and Italian; he preferred subtle lexicology to...

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