Roger Jacob Steiner

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Roger Jacob Steiner (born March 27, 1924 in South Byron , Wisconsin, † November 2, 2012 in Lititz , Pennsylvania) was an American linguist, romance scholar and lexicographer.

life and work

Steiner, whose ancestors came from Switzerland, did military service and was a Methodist pastor for 15 years. As part of his Romance studies, he spent two years in Bordeaux. He received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964 with the work Two centuries of Spanish and English bilingual lexicography 1590-1800 (The Hague 1970) and taught for 33 years at the University of Delaware , most recently as Full Professor of Linguistics.

Other works

  • The new college French & English dictionary , New York 1972 (379 pages), 2004 (766 pages)
  • Webster's French & English dictionary , Secaucus 1980 (375 pages)
  • Webster's dictionnaire français & anglais. Webster's French & English dictionary , Montréal 1981 (342 pages); The new international Webster's French & English dictionary , Naples 1997 (738 pages)
  • (Ed. With William Frawley) Advances in lexicography , Edmonton 1986
  • (Eds.) Simon & Schuster's international dictionary: English / Spanish, Spanish / English. Diccionario internacional Simon and Schuster: inglés / español, español / inglés , New York 1997 (1597 pages); Webster's New World international Spanish dictionary: English-Spanish, Spanish-English , Hoboken 2004 (1597 pages)
  • Diccionario Cuyás inglés-español, español-inglés. Cuyás dictionary English-Spanish, Spanish-English , New York 1999 (664 pages)

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personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Roger Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steiner, Roger J .; Steiner, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romance studies, French, Hispanic and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH South Byron, Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 2012
Place of death Lititz, Pennsylvania