Hans Marchand

Education

He studied Romance languages, English and Latin, and after fleeing Germany during the Third Reich was a lecturer of linguistics at Istanbul, Yale University, and Bard College.

Career

From 1957 to 1973 he was a professor at the University of Tübingen. Linguists following his approach are called Marchandeans.

Achievements

• Marchand published works on linguistic phenomena occurring in languages such as English, French, Turkish and Italian, but became famous in his discipline for his theories on word-formation in the English language.