Leo Weisgerber

✶February 25, 1899

†August 8, 1985

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About their life

Johann Leo Weisgerber was a German linguist who also specialized in Celtic linguistics. He developed the "organicist" or "relativist" theory that different languages produce different experiences. He was the son of a village teacher who served as a young man in the German army in Flanders, so could not return to his home city. During World War II his pan-Celticist ideology was co-opted to support the German war effort, as did pro-Polish and pro-Czech ideology on the side of the allies.

German linguist (1899-1985)

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