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Walther von Wartburg

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Swiss philologist and lexicographer

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According to Wikipedia, Walther von Wartburg was a Swiss philologist and lexicographer. He was the editor-in-chief of the Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch . After studying at the universities of Berne, Zurich, Florence and Paris , in 1918 he presented his doctoral thesis . In 1921 he became Privatdozent at Berne. He worked in the method of Lausanne, and later studied, from 1929 to 1939, at the University of Leipzig. From 1940 to 1959, he was Professor of French Philology at the University of Basle.

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