Edwin Bucher Williams

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Edwin Bucher Williams (born September 20, 1891 in Columbia , Pennsylvania , † April 28, 1975 in Philadelphia ) was an American Romanist , Hispanic , Lusitanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Williams studied in Dijon and Philadelphia and taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1919 . He received his doctorate there with the work The Life and dramatic works of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (Philadelphia 1924) and became an assistant professor . From 1932 to 1962 he was full professor for Romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania (from 1938 to 1951 also dean , from 1951 to 1956 also provost ).

Williams earned merits in US lusitanism and in the development of a pioneering methodology for bilingual lexicography, applied to the Spanish-English language pair.

Williams received honorary degrees from the University of Montpellier (1946), the University of Pennsylvania (1958) and Bucknell University (1959). A building has been named after him at the University of Pennsylvania since 1972 and a professorship since 1986.

Other works

  • (Eds.) Technical & scientific French , Boston 1926
  • (Ed.) French short stories of the nineteenth century , New York 1933
  • (Eds.) Aucassin et Nicolette and four lais of Marie de France , New York 1933
  • (Ed.) Maupassant for rapid reading , New York 1934
  • (Eds.) Anatole France, Jean Servien. Abridged , New York 1935
  • (Ed.) Alphonse Daudet, Lettres de mon moulin , New York 1936
  • From Latin to Portuguese. Historical phonology and morphology of the Portuguese language , Philadelphia 1938, 1962, 1968 (Portuguese: Do latim ao português. Fonologia e morfologia históricas da língua portuguêsa , Rio de Janeiro 1961, 1975)
  • An introductory Portuguese grammar , New York 1942, 1976
  • First Brazilian grammar. A course in beginner's Portuguese , New York 1944
  • Holt Spanish and English dictionary. Diccionario inglés y español , New York 1955, 1962 (1277 pages); Expanded edition and T. Dictionary of Spanish and English , New York 1963; The Williams Spanish & English dictionary; Spanish-English, English-Spanish , 1973
  • Dictionary of the Spanish Language. Diccionario del idioma español , New York 1959 (469 pages), 1967 (532 pages)
  • (with Marialice Pessoa) C ortina’s conversational Brazilian-Portuguese, intended for self-study and for use in schools , New York 1960, most recently 1990
  • The Bantam new college Spanish & English dictionary. Diccionario inglés y español , New York 1968 (723 pages), Webster's Spanish & English dictionary , Secaucus 1980; The new international Webster's Spanish & English dictionary, 1997; Webster's Spanish-English / English-Spanish dictionary , 2004, Diccionario inglés-español, español-inglés = English-Spanish, Spanish-English dictionary , 2004
  • (Ed.) The Scribner-Bantam English dictionary , New York 1977

literature

  • Arnold G. Reichenberger, [Williams Obituary], in: Hispanic Review Vol. 43, 1975
  • Roger Jacob Steiner, 308. Bilingual Lexicography: English-Spanish and Spanish-English, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Third volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann , Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta , Berlin. New York 1991, pp. 2949-2956

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personal data
SURNAME Williams, Edwin Bucher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Edwin B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance philologist, Hispanist, Lusitanist, and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1975
Place of death Philadelphia