William Jervis Jones

William Jervis Jones (16 August 1941 – 20 April 2018) was an English linguistic historian, described as "one of the most distinguished scholars" in the field of German studies in Britain.[1] Originally from Cornwall, he was a graduate of Oriel College, Oxford, and began teaching in the University of London in 1966, initially as an assistant lecturer in German at Westfield College; he was promoted to lecturer in 1969, and reader in 1984, before being appointed professor of German at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College in 1990. He retired in 2001.[2] He was the subject of a Festschrift.[3] His brother is the Australian–British librarian David Jones, author of The Australian Dictionary of Acronyms & Abbreviations (1977, etc).[2]

Bibliography

  • A Lexicon of French Borrowings in the German Vocabulary (1575–1648) (Berlin and New York: W. de Gruyter, 1976)
  • German Kinship Terms 750–1500 (Berlin and New York: W. de Gruyter, 1990)
  • Sprachhelden und Sprachverderber: Dokumente zum Fremdwortpurismus im Deutschen (1478–1750) (Berlin and New York: W. de Gruyter, 1995)
  • Images of Language: Six Essays on German Attitudes to European Languages 1500–1800 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1999)
  • German Lexicography in the European Context (1600–1700): A Descriptive Bibliography of Printed Dictionaries and Word Lists Containing German Language (Berlin and New York: W. de Gruyter, 2000)
  • Historisches Lexikon Deutscher Farbbezeichnungen, 5 vols (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2013)
  • German Colour Terms: A Study of their Historical Evolution from Earliest Times to the Present (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2013)

References

  1. ↑ John L. Flood, "Professor William Jervis Jones, 16 August 1941–20 April 2018", German Life and Letters, vol. 72, no. 2 (April 2019), pp. 125–128.
  2. 1 2 "Professor William Jervis Jones, 1941–2018", Language & History, vol. 61, no. 3 (2018), pp. 140–142.
  3. ↑ Máire C. Davies, John L. Flood and David N. Yeandle (eds), "Proper Words in Proper Places": Studies in Lexicology and Lexicography in Honour of William Jervis Jones (Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, 2001).
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