Yakov Malkiel
Yakov Malkiel · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Romance philologist and leading scholar of etymology.
1914, Kiev, Russian Empire — 1998, Berkeley, California, United States
Ukraine · Germany · United States
Yakov Malkiel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Romance philologist and leading scholar of etymology.
Malkiel was a Romance philologist and one of the foremost scholars of etymology, founding the journal 'Romance Philology' and analysing the history of Spanish and other Romance words. Born to a Jewish family in Kiev, he fled Nazi Germany and taught for decades at UC Berkeley.
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Romance philologist and leading scholar of etymology.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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