Jakob Jud
Jakob Jud was a Swiss Romance linguist.
From 1922 to 1950 he taught classes in Romance philology and Old French literature at the University of Zürich. With Karl Jaberg, he was the author of Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz. In 1936, with Arnald Steiger, he founded the magazine Vox Romanica.
He became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1946.