Joseph Aquilina

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Joseph Aquilina, LL.D., Ph.D. (7 April 1911 – 8 August 1997) was a Maltese author and linguist born in Munxar.

Aquilina graduated first as Bachelor of Arts and later as a lawyer from the University of Malta. Between 1937 and 1940 he read Comparative Semitic Philology at the University of London where he obtained a doctorate. Among the prominent posts which Aquilina held as a full-time professor at the University of Malta, was that as Dean of the Faculty of Arts.

Professor Aquilina's numerous works include novels, philosophical essays, critical studies, drama, linguistic papers and religious books, his magnum opus being a Maltese-English Dictionary.

Partial bibliography

Teach Yourself Maltese. Teach Yourself Books, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1965; 6th impression 1985
A Comparative Dictionary of Maltese Proverbs, 1972
Papers in Maltese Linguistics. University of Malta
A Survey of Contemporary Dialectal Maltese (jointly with B.S. Isserlin), Gozo/Leeds 1981
Twemmin u Ħajja ["Faith and Life"], 1984
Maltese-English Dictionary, I-II, Midsea Books Ltd, Malta, 1987-1990, 1673 pages

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Name	Aquilina, Joseph
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Short description	Maltese writer
Date of birth	7 April 1911
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Date of death	8 August 1997
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