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Jakob Jud

Swiss linguist (1882–1952) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jakob Jud
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Jakob Jud [ju:t] (12 January 1882 in Wängi, Kanton Thurgau 15 June 1952 in Seelisberg, Kanton Uri) was a Swiss Romance linguist (Romanist).

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Jakob Jud

From 1922 to 1950 he taught classes in Romance philology and Old French literature at the University of Zürich.[1] With Karl Jaberg, he was the author of Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz (8 volumes, 1928–40).[2] In 1936, with Arnald Steiger, he founded the magazine Vox Romanica.[3]

He became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1946.[4]

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