Luise Hercus
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Luise Anna Hercus AM FAHA, née Schwarzschild, (16 January 1926 – 15 April 2018)[1][2][3] was a German-born linguist who lived in Australia from 1954. After significant early work on Middle Indo-Aryan dialects (Prakrits) she had specialised in Australian Aboriginal languages since 1963, when she took it up as a hobby. Works authored or co-authored by her are influential, and often among the primary resource materials on many languages of Australia.[4]
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Born | Luise Anna Schwarzschild (1926-01-16)16 January 1926 Munich, Germany |
Died | 15 April 2018(2018-04-15) (aged 92) |
Education | St Anne's College, Oxford |
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