Michael E. Krauss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMichael E. Krauss
American linguist
Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1934
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 11-Aug-2019
Profession: linguist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Michael E. Krauss
- Michael E.
- Krauss (August 15, 1934 – August 11, 2019) was an American linguist, professor emeritus, founder and long-time head of the Alaska Native Language Center.
- He died on August 11, 2019, four days before his 85th birthday.
- The Alaska Native Language Archive is named after him. Krauss is known first and foremost as an Athabaskanist and Eyak language specialist, a language that became extinct in January 2008.
- However, he has worked on all of the 20 Native languages of Alaska, 18 of which belong to the Na-Dené and Eskimo–Aleut language families. Throughout his career, and most notably with his 1991 address to the Linguistic Society of America, Krauss focused awareness of the global problem of endangered languages.
- He has since worked to encourage the documentation and revitalization of endangered languages across the world. Krauss joined the faculty of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1960 and served as director of the Alaska Native Language Center from its inception in 1972 until his retirement in June 2000.
- He remains active in efforts to document Alaska's Native languages and encouraged awareness of the global problem of endangered languages.
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