Rodolfo Lenz

Rodolfo Lenz was born in 1863 in Halle, Germany. Awarded a doctorate in philosophy by the University of Bonn in 1886, with a thesis on palatal sounds, he was hired by the Chilean government to teach modern languages at the Instituto Pedagógico of the University of Chile, where he arrived around 1890. There he became the most influential figure in the country's linguistic studies and took an interest in how the popular Spanish of Chile may have been influenced by indigenous languages. He died in Santiago in 1938.

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• TaleEstudios araucanosRodolfo Lenz · 1897not translated into EnglishLiterature