Turner, Lorenzo Dow
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Name (Latin)
Turner, Lorenzo Dow
Other forms of name
Turner, Lorenzo D. (Lorenzo Dow)
Date of birth
1895-08-21
Date of death
1972-02-10
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Linguistics
Occupation
Authors
College teachers
Travelers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1895
d. 1972
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Sources of Information
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1895; d. 1972)
- Lorenzo Dow Turner (Aug. 21, 1890 - Feb. 10, 1972) was an African-American academic and linguist; he is best known for his research on the Gullah language or dialect, spoken by descendants of African slaves in coastal South Carolina and Georgia; he headed the English department at Howard University in Washington; traveled to several locations in Africa, specifically Sierra Leone, to learn about the development of Creole languages, as well as to Louisiana and Brazil, to study Creole and Portuguese, respectively ( (Wikipedia, March 5, 2019) )
- His Anti-slavery sentiment in American literature prior to 1865, c1929.
Wikipedia description:
Lorenzo Dow Turner (August 21, 1890 – February 10, 1972) was an African-American academic and linguist who did seminal research on the Gullah language of the Low Country of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. His studies included recordings of Gullah speakers in the 1930s. As head of the English departments at Howard University and Fisk University for a combined total of nearly 30 years, he strongly influenced their programs. He created the African Studies curriculum at Fisk, was chair of the African Studies Program at Roosevelt University, and in the early 1960s, cofounded a training program for Peace Corps volunteers going to Africa.
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