Robert Austerlitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Austerlitz

Romanian-American linguist

Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1923

Place of Birth: Bucharest

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1994

Profession: teacher, president, linguist

Nationality: United States, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Robert Paul Austerlitz (December 13, 1923 – September 9, 1994) was a noted 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.