Henry M. Hoenigswald, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry M. Hoenigswald

American linguist

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1915

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 16-Jun-2003

Profession: linguist

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Henry Max Hoenigswald (17 April 1915 – 16 June 2003) was a German scholar of linguistics, who in 1939 escaped to the United States where he had a long and productive academic career as a scholar of historical linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.