Lord, Albert Bates

Umbundu
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Summary: Albert Bates Lord was a professor of Slavic and comparative literature at Harvard University who carried on Milman Parry's research on epic poetry after Parry's death. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][3][4][5][6]; Unknown [2]
Born: 1912 [2]; 1912-09-15 [6]
Birth Place: Boston, Mass. [2]; Boston [6]
Died: 1991 [2]; 1991-07-29 [6]
Death Place: Cambridge, Mass. [2]; Cambridge [6]
Country: United States [2]
Language: English [3][5]; Russian [5]
Occupation: Literatūrzinātnieks [5]; Universitātes profesors [5]; philologist [6]; slavist [6]; teacher [6]
Employer: Harvard University [6]
Field of Activity: Literatūra [5]; Episkā literatūra [5]
Educated at: Harvard University [6]
Country of Education: United States [6]
Encyclopædia Britannica: Biography [6]
Yale LUX: Entity [6]
American National Biography: Biography (requires subscription) [6]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Library of Congress; 5. National Library of Latvia; 6. Wikidata

Last updated Jan 7, 2026