About Wybren Jan Buma
Lived 1910 – 1999 (aged 89). Wybren Jan Buma was a Dutch germanist and university teacher.
Wybren Jan Buma (1910–1999) was a scholar of Frisian languages and history, known for editing and translating Germanic law codes including the Asega-bôk (his was the first modern scholarly edition thereof), the legal code for the Rustringian Frisians and one of the oldest surviving continental Germanic law codes.
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Who was Wybren Jan Buma?
Dutch germanist and university teacher (1910-1999)
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Wybren Jan Buma was born on 19 October 1910 in The Hague.
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Wybren Jan Buma died on 19 October 1999.
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Wybren Jan Buma was a germanist and university teacher.
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Wybren Jan Buma was Dutch.
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