Edgar Charles Polomé, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edgar Charles Polomé

Belgian-American linguist

Date of Birth: 31-Jul-1920

Place of Birth: Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 11-Mar-2000

Profession: university teacher, linguist

Nationality: United States, Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Edgar Charles Polomé (31 July 1920 – 11 March 2000) was a Belgian Indo-Europeanist, and professor of comparative religions and languages at the University of Texas.
He studied at the Free University of Brussels from 1938, specializing in Germanic philology. In 1945, he joined the U.S.
Army as an interpreter in Eschwege in Allied-occupied Germany.
After the war, he completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Brussels in 1949. Polomé came to the University of Texas in 1960 and became a tenured professor in the Department of Germanic Languages.
He was also the managing editor of The Journal of Indo-European Studies and etymology consultant to Webster's New World College Dictionary.