Wolf Leslau
Wolf Leslau | |
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וולף לסלאו | |
Leslau in 2004 at the 32nd North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics | |
| Born | 14 November 1906 |
| Died | 18 November 2006 (aged 100) |
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| Spouse |
Charlotte Leslau (before 1931) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Haile Selassie Prize (1965), Medal of the Order of the Blue Nile-First Class (1983), Lidzbarski Gold Medal Award (1996) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Semitic linguistics |
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| 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.