Sigmund Feist, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sigmund Feist

German linguist

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1865

Place of Birth: Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Mar-1943

Profession: linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Sigmund Feist (Mainz, 12 June 1865 - Copenhagen, 23 March 1943) was a German Jewish pedagogue and historical linguist.
He was the author of the Germanic substrate hypothesis as well as a number of important works concerning Jewish ethnic and racial identity.
Feist served as the director of the Jewish Reichenheim Orphanage in Berlin from 1906 to 1935.
In 1907 he became a member of the Gesellschaft der Freunde society. Feist emigrated to Denmark in 1939 where he died four years later.