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St. Clair-Sobell, James O.
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1914-
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Born in England, James St. Clair-Sobell received a B.A. (1935) and MA (1937) from Melbourne. In 1946, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Graz. He became one of Britain's most accomplished linguists and philologists. St. Clair-Sobell was appointed to the newly-created Chair in Russian and Slavonic Studies in the late 1940s at UBC, and he later developed the Department of Slavonic Studies.
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Linguist and Philologist.
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UBCA-ARC-AUTH-079