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Professor Oswald Szemerenyi FBA

Linguistics - Philology
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1982
Year of birth
1913
Year of death
1996
Honours
FBA
Sections
Linguistics and Philology

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Indo-European and General Linguistics, University of Freiburg i.B

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