Jakob Jud (12 January 1882 in Wängi, Kanton Thurgau – 15 June 1952 in Seelisberg, Kanton Uri) was a Swiss Romance linguist (Romanist).
From 1922 to 1950 he taught classes in Romance philology and Old French literature at the University of Zürich. With Karl Jaberg, he was the author of Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz (8 volumes, 1928–40). In 1936, with Arnald Steiger, he founded the magazine Vox Romanica.
He became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1946.
References
- Jud, Jakob Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz
- Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz OCLC WorldCat
- Vox romanica Romanische Forschungen – 100. Bd., H. 1/3, 1988
- "J. Jud (1882 - 1952)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020.
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