Oscar Bloch
Oscar Bloch · Philosophy & Social Sciences
French linguist, author of a foundational etymological dictionary of French.
1877, Le Thillot, France — 1937, Paris, France
France
Oscar Bloch is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — French linguist, author of a foundational etymological dictionary of French.
Bloch was a French linguist and lexicographer who, with Walther von Wartburg, produced the foundational Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française, a standard reference for the etymology of French. He was born into a Jewish family of the Vosges and was brother of the historian Camille Bloch.
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French linguist, author of a foundational etymological dictionary of French.
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