Austerlitz, Robert, 1923-1994
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- Summary
- Robert Paul Austerlitz was a Romanian-American linguist. Born in Bucharest, he emigrated to the United States in 1938. In June 1950, he received a Master of Arts from Columbia University, where he studied under André Martinet. With funding from the Ford Foundation, he studied the Uralic and Altaic languages at the University of Helsinki from 1951 to 1953 and Nivkh and Hokkaido at the University of Tokyo from 1953 to 1954. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1923-12-13 [2][5]
- Birth Place
- Bukarest [2]
- Bucharest [5]
- Died
- 1994-09-09 [2][5]
- Death Place
- New York, NY [2]
- New York City [5]
- Country
- Romania [2]
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- linguist [5]
- teacher [5]
- Employer
- Columbia University [5]
- Educated at
- University of Helsinki [5]
- University of Tokyo [5]
- Columbia University [5]
- Country of Education
- Japan [5]
- Finland [5]
- United States [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. Wikidata
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