About Jules Feller
Lived 1859 – 1940 (aged 80). Jules Feller was a Belgian linguist, university teacher and romanist.
Jules Feller (4 November 1859 – 29 April 1940) was a Belgian professor and a philologist of the Walloon language.
Biography Jules Feller created the Feller system of spelling for the Walloon language, and advocated for the co-teaching of Walloon and French in Wallonia. A modified version of his orthographic system is also the basis for writing used for the Picard language, known as the Feller-Carton system, and developed by Fernand Carton in 1963.
He represented Verviers in the from 1919 until his death. He was a member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature in Belgium.
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Who was Jules Feller?
Belgian linguist (1859–1940)
When was Jules Feller born?
Jules Feller was born on 4 November 1859 in Roubaix.
When did Jules Feller die?
Jules Feller died on 29 April 1940 in Verviers.
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Jules Feller was a linguist, university teacher and romanist.
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Jules Feller was Belgian.
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