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Lloyd Kasten

American academic

Died when: 94 years 243 days (1135 months)
Star Sign: Aries

 

Lloyd Kasten

Lloyd August Wilhelm Kasten (April 14, 1905 – December 13, 1999) was an American Hispanist, medievalist, lexicographer, and Lusophile.Lloyd Kasten joined the faculty of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin in 1931 and spent the next 68 years pursuing and promoting research on the language and literature of medieval Spain.

He produced, usually in collaboration with other scholars, editions of several works of medieval Spanish literature, and he led the teams of scholars who compiled the most thoroughly documented dictionary of the Old Spanish language in existence today.

In addition, he played a key role in promoting and expanding the study of Portuguese in the United States.


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