Rodolfo Lenz

Abstract

In this article the author intends to offer an overall profile of Dr. Rodolfo Lenz’ versatile personality, portraying him as the man, the phonetician, the expert scholar in Araucanian, the orthographer, the methodologist, the compulsive scientist. All these personality traits contributed to renovate in Chile the interest in language, in foreign language methodology and the institutionalization of folklore as a science, which earned him the Chilean nationality.