Fredrik Wulff

Fredrik Wulff

Fredrik Amadeus Wulff (11 February 1845 in Gothenburg – 31 December 1930 in Lund) was a Swedish phonetician and philologist. A student of Edvard Lidforss He is best known for his collaboration with Ivar Adolf Lyttkens on the pronunciation, phonology, phonotactics, and vocabulary of Swedish.[1] Wulff became the first professor of Romance languages at the Lund University in 1888.[2]

Wulff is buried at Easstern Cemetery, Lund.[3]

Chart of Wulff's phonetic transcription system from 1888. Many of the symbols would end up being used by the International phonetic alphabet (IPA), but others, such as Greek τ δ ν for dental [t̪ d̪ n̪] and π μ for [p̪ m̪], would not be. Script and rotated letters would be used by the IPA, but not bold or italic typeface. This system includes a level of phonetic detail in its letters that the IPA transcribes with diacritics.

References

  1. ↑ Hovdhaugen, Even (2000). The History of Linguistics in the Nordic Countries. Societas Scientiarum Fennica. p. 267. ISBN 978-951-653-305-9. Retrieved 26 June 2026.
  2. ↑ Gallén, Enric; Nosell, Dan (2011). Guimerà i el Premi Nobel: Història d'una candidatura (in Catalan). Punctum. p. 48. ISBN 978-84-939252-2-2. Retrieved 26 June 2026.
  3. ↑ "Fredrik Wulff". Kendtes gravsted (in Danish). Retrieved 26 June 2026.
  • (in Swedish) Lindblad, Göran. 1925. Svensk biografisk handbok, p. 832
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