| LC control no. | n 85333136 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Elsie, Robert, 1950-2017 |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Located | Berlin (Germany) Bonn (Germany) |
| Birth date | 1950-06-29 |
| Death date | 2017-10-02 |
| Place of birth | Vancouver (B.C.) |
| Place of death | Bonn (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Linguistics Albania |
| Affiliation | University of British Columbia Universität Bonn |
| Profession or occupation | Translators Authors |
| Found in | The position of Brittonic, 1979: t.p. (Robert William Elsie aus Vancouver) Dictionary of Albanian literature, ©1986: CIP t.p. (Robert Elsie) publ. info (b. 6/29/50; translator for the Govt. of the Fed. Rep. of Germany) Robert Elsie, via WWW, viewed July 14, 2015 (Robert Elsie, specialist in Albanian Studies, born in Vancover, B.C., Canada, 29 June 1950; studied at the University of British Columbia and graduated there in 1972 in Classics and Linguistics; Ph.D. in Linguistics and Celtic Studies from University of Bonn, 1978; translator and interpreter at German Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1990s; freelance translator for Albanian for German government, European Union, United Nations, NATO, Council of Europe; resides in Berlin) <http://www.elsie.de/en/bio.html> Wikipedia, viewed 9 November 2017: Robert Elsie (Canadian-born German scholar who specialized in Albanian literature and folklore; born June 29, 1950, in Vancouver, British Columbia; graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1972, studied at the Free University of Berlin, the École Pratique des Hautes Études, the University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and received his doctorate in linguistics and Celtic studies from the University of Bonn in 1978; published around 60 books in English, Albanian or German; received the Medal of Gratitude from the President of Albania in 2013; died of motor neuron disease October 2, 2017, in Bonn, Germany) Amicus database, 9 November 2017 (authorized access point (1015A6754): Elsie, Robert, 1950- [born 1950-06-29 in Vancouver, lives in Germany]; variant access point: Elsie, Robert William, 1950- ) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 88114889 |
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