Wybren Jan Buma, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wybren Jan Buma

Dutch germanist and university teacher (1910-1999)

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1910

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 19-Oct-1999

Profession: university teacher, Germanist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Wybren Jan Buma (1910–1999) was a scholar of Frisian languages and history, known for editing and translating Germanic law codes including the Asega-bôk (his was the first modern scholarly edition thereof), the legal code for the Rustringian Frisians and one of the oldest surviving continental Germanic law codes.