Fredrik Wulff

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Fredrik Amadeus Wulff (11 February 1845 in Gothenburg – 31 December 1930 in Lund) was a Swedish phonetician and philologist. A student of Edvard Lidforss [sv] He is best known for his collaboration with Ivar Adolf Lyttkens [sv] on the pronunciation, phonology, phonotactics, and vocabulary of Swedish. Wulff became the first professor of Romance languages at the Lund University in 1888.

Wulff is buried at Easstern Cemetery, Lund [sv].

Gallery

Chart of Wulff's phonetic transcription system from 1888. Many of the symbols would end up being used by the International phonetic alphabet (IPA), but others, such as Greek τ δ ν for dental [t̪ d̪ n̪] and π μ for [p̪ m̪], would not be. Script and rotated letters would be used by the IPA, but not bold or italic typeface. This system includes a level of phonetic detail in its letters that the IPA transcribes with diacritics.

References

• (in Swedish) Lindblad, Göran. 1925. Svensk biografisk handbok, p. 832

External links

• "Wulff, F. A. (Fredrik Amadeus), 1845–1930". The Online Books Page. Retrieved 26 June 2026.

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