| LC control no. | n 50043450 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Knappert, Jan |
| Variant(s) | Knappert, J. (Jan) |
| Associated country | Netherlands England |
| Associated place | Zimbabwe Belgium |
| Birth date | 1927-01-14 |
| Death date | 2005-05-30 |
| Place of birth | Heemstede (Netherlands) |
| Place of death | Hilversum (Netherlands) |
| Field of activity | Swahili language African languages |
| Affiliation | University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies UniversiteĢ catholique de Louvain (1970- ) Universiteit Leiden University College of Rhodesia. Department of African Languages |
| Profession or occupation | Language teachers Translators |
| Found in | Author's Four Swahili epics, 1964: t.p. (Jan Knappert) Islam, 1986: CIP t.p. (J. Knappert) pub. info (b. 01-14-1927) Swahili proverbs, 1997: t.p. (Jan Knappert) p. 4 of cover (b. 1927, in Holland; educated at Univ. of Leiden; lives in London) Dictionary of literary Swahili, 2010: ECIP t.p. (Jan Knappert) galley (d. 2005) Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014 (Dr.) Shona dialects and the development of the standard language, 1973: various pages (Dr. J. Knappert, visiting lecturer, U.C.R. [University College of Rhodesia], 1967) Wikipedia, July 21, 2022 (Jan Knappert; born January 14, 1927, Heemstede; died May 30, 2005, Hilversum, Netherlands; expert on the Swahili language, translated literary and historical works from Swahili; taught in Leuven and London, and at several African universities; Lecturer of Bantu Languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for a number of years, then moved to Belgium to lecture at the University of Louvain) |
| Associated language | eng swa |
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