Biography of the World's Greatest Linguists Leonard Bloomfield

About the biography of Leonard Bloomfield one of the greatest linguists in history and the world.

THE WORLD'S GREATEST LINGUISTS

LEONARD BLOOMFIELD (1887-1949)

Chicago-born Bloomfield's book Language "almost alone determined the course of linguistic science in the U.S.," according to one authority. Bloomfield believed a student should be able to speak a language before writing it. By practicing what he preached, he mastered a great number of the world's 2,796 languages.