biography
pronunciation:
[wotmaw]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1964)
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| biography:
| Linguist, born in Rochdale, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He was educated in England at the universities of Manchester and Cambridge before becoming chairman of the department of comparative philology (1926–51) and a member of the linguistics department (1951–63) at Harvard. He was an influential editor of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1932–4; 1941–8) whose many publications included Foundations of Roman Italy (1937) and Dialects of Ancient Gaul (1970). |
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