Wolf Leslau

Wolf Leslau
וולף לסלאו
Leslau in 2004 at the 32nd North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
Born(1906-11-14)14 November 1906
Kshepitse, Russian Empire
(now Krzepice, Poland)
Died18 November 2006(2006-11-18) (aged 100)
Citizenship
  • Poland
  • Stateless
  • United States
Spouse
Charlotte Leslau
(before 1931)
Children2
AwardsHaile Selassie Prize (1965), Medal of the Order of the Blue Nile-First Class (1983), Lidzbarski Gold Medal Award (1996)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Academic work
DisciplineSemitic linguistics
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Wolf Leslau (Yiddish: וולף לסלאו; born November 14, 1906, in Krzepice, Vistula Land, Poland; died November 18, 2006, in Fullerton, California) was a scholar of Semitic languages and one of the foremost authorities on Semitic languages of Ethiopia.