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Robert Elsie
Canadian/german linguist and albanologist (1950–2017).
Born June 29th, 1950 in Vancouver.
Died October 2nd, 2017 at 67 years old in Berlin, Bonn (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). [ref]
Occupations
anthropologist, linguist, literary scholar, man of letters, translator, writer
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