Kenneth H. Jackson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetKenneth H. Jackson
British linguist
Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1909
Place of Birth: Croydon, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 20-Feb-1991
Profession: linguist
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Kenneth H. Jackson
- Prof Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson CBE FRSE FSA DLitt (1 November 1909 – 20 February 1991) was an English linguist and a translator who specialised in the Celtic languages.
- He demonstrated how the text of the Ulster Cycle of tales, written circa AD 1100, preserves an oral tradition originating some six centuries earlier and reflects Celtic Irish society of the third and fourth century AD.
- His Celtic Miscellany is a popular standard. In retirement, Jackson continued his work on place-names and Goidelic languages.
- However he suffered a stroke in 1984 that restricted his work. An obituary was published in The Times on 8 March 1991 and in Nomina 15.
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