Alexander Gode

Alexander Gottfried Friedrich Gode-von-Aesch (30 October 1906 – 10 August 1970) was a German-American linguist, translator and major driving force behind the creation of the constructed language Interlingua.

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• A thing like Interlingua just can't be the job of one man. And I still think it's a rather nice metaphor and one that satisfies my vanity completely if we agree that I was the midwife of Interlingua. (February 1960)