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Alexander Gerschenkron (1904 - 1978) | ||
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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6381 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 2 29 May 2012 at 3:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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A famous Harvard economic historian who lived from 1904 to 1978. He knew English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Swedish, and Latin. I saw this description of him today written by one of his students:
Had I been raised in Odessa with a French governess and fled the revolution in 1919 to Romania and thence to university in Vienna, and then left the Anschluss behind for the United States, like my supervisor in graduate school, Alexander Gerschenkron, I would doubtless have been able to pick up, as he did, Swedish in a week and Portuguese in an afternoon. Edited by Fasulye on 29 May 2012 at 7:23pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tmp011007 Diglot Senior Member Congo Joined 6071 days ago 199 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 2 of 2 29 May 2012 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | ||
that's not an exaggeration but an "exaggerated exaggeration" Edited by tmp011007 on 29 May 2012 at 7:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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