William E. Skillend
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William E. Skillend (26 April 1926 – 21 February 2010) was the first British academic specializing in the Korean language, and the first professor of Korean at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.[1]
Skillend was born in Liverpool and went on to study Japanese at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he received a first-class degree and later completed a PhD. He became one of the generation of British orientalists who started as military translators, in his case at Bletchley Park.[2]
Skillend was responsible for establishing the Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) in 1977.[2]
Works
- William E. Skillend, Kodae Sosol: A Survey of Korean Traditional Style Popular Novels (London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1968).
References
- ^ Times Obituary
- ^ a b William E. Skillend, 'The Early Days, 1947-55', in Richard Bowring (ed.), Fifty years of Japanese at Cambridge, 1948–98: A Chronicle with Reminiscences (Cambridge: Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, 1998), pp. 8-15.
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