Jonathan Lowell Butler
Jonathan Lowell Butler ( 1939 - January 1, 1974 ) was an American Romanist and Italianist.
Life
Butler studied in Berkeley (with Yakov Malkiel ) and in Heidelberg (with Kurt Baldinger ) and received his doctorate in Berkeley in 1969 with the thesis The Latin derivational suffixes -ĪNUS, -ĪNA, -ĬNUS, and -ĬNEUS. Their origins and Romance descendants (published by T. Latin -īnus, -īna, -ĭnus and -ĭneus. From Proto-Indo-European to the Romance languages , Berkeley 1971). This overall novelistic work (which received a wide response) placed a special emphasis on Sardinian . Butler died shortly after his appointment as associate professor at the University of California, Davis . He received the honor of a commemorative publication in Romance Philology .
literature
- Jonathan L. Butler memorial, in: Romance Philology 29, 4, 1975
Web links
- Literature by and about Jonathan Lowell Butler in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Jonathan Lowell Butler, French and Italian: Davis. University of California (System) Academic Senate, 1977, accessed January 22, 2015 (English, obituary).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butler, Jonathan Lowell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romanist and Italianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st January 1974 |