Eric Otto Winstedt

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Eric Otto Winstedt ( 1880 in Oxford - January 29, 1955 ), better known as EO Winstedt , was a British linguist , Latinist and tsiganologist . He translated Latin texts such as Marcus Tullius Cicero's letters to Titus Pomponius Atticus into English and published on the Coptic language .

Furthermore, he put together a "Register of Gypsy Names" in the 1920s and published frequently in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society to whose core group he belonged.

His brother was Richard Olaf Winstedt .

Fonts

  • Coptic texts on St Theodore: the general (Stratelates, [d.] C306), on St Theodore the Eastern (the Oriental) and on Chamoul and Justus. APA, 1979
  • Some Old German Word Lists. Gypsy Lore Society, 1908
  • Early British Gypsies. Gypsy Lore Society, 1913

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RomanyJib
  2. ↑ University of Liverpool ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sca.lib.liv.ac.uk
  3. ^ Donald Kenrick , Thomas Alan Acton , Scholarship and the Gypsy Struggle: Commitment in Romani Studies: A Collection of Papers and Poems to Celebrate Donald Kenrick's Seventieth Year. Univ. of Hertfordshire Press, 2000 online p. 136.
personal data
SURNAME Winstedt, Eric Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winstedt, EO
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British linguist, Latinist and tsiganologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1955