Louw biography

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    • Johannes P. Louw

    Johannes P. Louw

    Born(1932-12-31)31 December 1932

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    Died23 December 2011(2011-12-23) (aged 78)

    Pretoria, South Africa[1]

    Alma materUniversity of Pretoria
    OccupationLinguist
    Spouse

    Rina Watson

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    (m. 1956)​

    Johannes Petrus Louw (31 December 1932 – 23 December 2011) was the editor of the Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains (UBS, 1988, with Eugene Nida); he also developed an approach to linguistics which became known as South African Discourse Analysis.[2]

    Biography

    Louw was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 31 December 1932. He matriculated in 1949 at the Hoërskool Helpmekaar in that city. In 1952 he completed a bachelor's degree cum laude at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, majoring in Greek, Hebrew and sociology. This was followed by a master's degree cum laude in 1954. The t