About Jean Haust
Lived 1868 – 1946 (aged 78). Jean Haust was a Belgian university teacher, secondary school teacher, linguist, dialectologist and toponymist.
Jean Haust (Verviers, 10 February 1868– Liège, 23 November 1946) was a Belgian academic, linguist and philologist. He was a professor at the University of Liège en became known for his publication of several dictionaries containing the Walloon dialect of Liège.
Honours 1932: Commander in the Order of Leopold.
Works Étymologies wallonnes et françaises (Liège and Paris, H. Vaillant-Carmanne and Édouard Champion, 1923)
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Who was Jean Haust?
Belgian linguist (1868–1946)
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Jean Haust was born on 10 February 1868 in Verviers.
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Jean Haust died on 24 November 1946.
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Jean Haust was a university teacher, secondary school teacher, linguist, dialectologist and toponymist.
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Jean Haust was Belgian.
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