MANN, Stuart Edward (Stewart E. Mann). Nottingham 11.6.1905 — High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 5.8.1986. British Linguist. Son of Oliver Mann (1880–1959) and Mabel Constance Anderson. Studies at Bristol, graduated 1927 in Germanic studies. In 1929-31 in Tirana teaching English at school and learning Albanian, then teaching English at Masaryk University in Brno. In WW II worked for Information Ministry and Foreign Office. In 1947-72 taught Czech and Albanian at School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University of London), then retired. Married in Brno Helen Pauserova (1914–1993).
Publications: “The Cradle of the ‘Indo-Europeans’; Linguistic Evidence”, Man 43, 1943, 74-85.
– An Indo-European Comparative Dictionary. 14+1682 col. Hamburg 1984-87.
– Also wrote on Czech and Armenian and especially on Albanian.
Sources: www.albanianhistory.net; German Wikipedia; ancestors.familysearch.org.
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