LODEWYCKX, Augustin

 Person: id 89605
University connections
UMelb
Event flag
World War I
Family name
LODEWYCKX
Given name(s)
Augustin
Initials
A.
Gender
Male
Survived
Survived WWI
OCRd book entry or other narrative
Not listed on the Roll of Active Service. Mentioned in the University of Melbourne Magazine War Memorial number, July 1920, as having undertaken munitions work, or the like, in the United Kingdom. Dr A Lodewyckx rendered valuable service in connection with the Defence Department by the interpretation of documents in Romance, Scandinavian and Slavonic languages.
Publications
His first book (1911) was a detailed study of geographical conditions in central and southern Africa. His book on Germans in Australia (1932) was the first standard work in the field and set the pattern for later research. Shortly before his eightieth birthday he published People for Australia: A Study in Population Problems (1956).
Visible notes
Lodewyckx's interests were broad and deep. They focused on philology and the history of Germanic languages within the Indo-European group and on demography and patterns of culture. knowledge of European languages was utilised by the wartime censorship office [ADB entry]
 
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