Speyer, J.
| English Phonetics | Jacob Samuel Speyer |
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| Sort Name | Speyer, Jacob |
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Jacob Samuel Speyer (b. Amsterdam, December 20, 1849 - d. Leiden, November 2, 1913) was a Dutch linguist and philologist. Speyer was best known as a researcher, text editor, and translator of Sanskrit. He achieved international fame with his main work Sanskrit Syntax (1886).
Speyer was born in Amsterdam and studied in Amsterdam and Leiden, where he graduated in December 1872 on a thesis about Hindu birth rituals. In 1877 he was appointed professor of Sanskrit at the Municipality of Amsterdam and in 1889 professor of Latin at the University of Groningen. In the same year he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1902 to 1903 he was the rector magnificus of the University of Groningen. After the end of his rectorship in 1903, he switched to the University of Leiden, where he succeeded Hendrik Kern as professor of Sanskrit.
Speyer wrote and lectured not only on Latin and Sanskrit, but on a multitude of subjects in the fields of linguistics, literature, anthropology, philosophy, and religion of Classical Antiquity and the Orient. He died in Leiden. (Source Accessed Apr 23, 2021
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