Alexander Gode

Alexander Gottfried Friedrich Gode- von Aesch ( born October 30, 1906 in Bremen, † August 10, 1970 in Mount Kisco, New York ), usually called simply Alexander Gode, was a German -American linguist and translator. He created in 1951 the plan language Interlingua.

Life

Godes father was German, from Bremen, his mother a native of Switzerland. He studied in Vienna and Paris before emigrating to America in 1927 and became a U.S. citizen. There he worked as a teacher at the universities of Chicago and Columbia; on the latter he received his doctorate in 1939 for a Doctor of Philosophy.

From 1933 he was a member of the International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ). The company started in 1936 to work on a new world language, what Gode participated from 1939.

He died in 1970 from cancer. Even before his first wife Johanna died. His two daughters and his second wife Alison and their two daughters survived him.