What key details about samuel g. armistead can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: samuel gordon armistead -lrb- august 21 , 1927 -- august 7 , 2013 -rrb- was a prominent american ethnographer , linguist , folklorist , historian , professor emeritus of spanish and critic of literature . he is considered one of the most notable hispanist scholars of the second half of the 20th and early 21st century . his studies were especially focused on medieval spanish language and literature , hispanic folk literature , comparative literature and folklore . he studied ballads of spain and north africa he excelled also in his studies of minority languages and archaic but still existing languages , such as the spanish language of the islenos in louisiana communities and , especially , the sephardic jews ' language , ladino . armistead was author of a multi-volume series concerning the traditional literature of the sephardic jews and is author , co-author , editor , or co-editor of over twenty books and several hundred articles on medieval spanish literature , modern hispanic oral literature , and comparative literature . his research fields that have had special impact include early poetry , medieval history , hispanic dialectology , the spanish epic and romance , old and traditional . he conducted numerous field surveys on the language and oral literature of the sephardic communities of morocco , the middle east , rural communities in portugal , spain and israel , and several sites in the united states . in addition , he performed pioneering studies on various genres of hispanic oral tradition , such as the kharjas , riddles , the paremeologia and folktales .
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- imagesize is 120px- death place is davis , california- notableworks is el folk literature of the sephardic jews , bibliografias del romancero romancero oral , la tradicion epica de las '' mocedades de judeo-espanol rodrigo '' en el archivo menendez pidal ,- subject is medieval , comparative literature and folklore spanish language and literature , hispanic folk literature- death date is 7 august 2013- birth date is 21 august 1927- name is samuel g. armistead- birthname is samuel gordon armistead- birth place is philadelphia , pennsylvania- nationality is american- occupation is ethnographer and critic of literature , linguist , folklorist , historian , professor