Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn
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Name (Latin)
Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn
Other forms of name
Lounsbury, F. G. (Floyd Glenn)
Lounsbury, Floyd G
Date of birth
1914-04-25
Date of death
1998-05-14
Gender
male
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MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Iroquois place-names in the Champlain Valley, 1965:t.p. (Floyd G. Lounsbury)
- OCLC, Nov. 5, 1997(hdg.: Lounsbury, Floyd G.; usages: F.G. Lounsbury; Floyd Glenn Lounsbury)
- N.Y. times, May 23, 1998(Floyd G. Lounsbury; expert in decoding Mayan hieroglyphs and in American Indian languages; b. Stevens Point, Wis.; taught at Yale for three decades; d. May 14 in Connecticut at age 84)
Wikipedia description:
Floyd Glenn Lounsbury (April 25, 1914 – May 14, 1998) was an American linguist, anthropologist and Mayanist scholar and epigrapher, best known for his work on linguistic and cultural systems of a variety of North and South American languages. Equally important were his contributions to understanding the hieroglyphs, culture and history of the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
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