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- Karl Heinrich Menges (* 22. April 1908 in Frankfurt am Main; † 20. September 1999 in Wien) war ein deutscher Turkologe, Tungusologe, Altaist, Slavist, Dravidologe und Nostratist. (de)
- Karl Heinrich Menges (April 22, 1908 – September 20, 1999) was a German linguist known for his advocacy of the Altaic hypothesis. He was a faculty member at Columbia University in New York and subsequently at the University of Vienna. Menges was born in Frankfurt, where he was educated at the Lessing Gymnasium. He studied in Frankfurt and Munich and earned his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1932. Politically identifying as a Catholic centrist, he resisted the Nazi regime, distributing leaflets. In 1936 he was arrested by the Gestapo and interrogated for five hours; on a tip-off from a classmate, after being released pending trial he fled to Czechoslovakia, after the annexation of the Sudetenland moving on to Turkey. Menges taught at Columbia University in New York for 36 years, from 1940 to 1976. He had been invited to teach Slavic languages; the university discovered only after his arrival that he was a scholar of the then little-studied Altaic languages. After his retirement from Columbia he taught at the University of Vienna until shortly before his death in Vienna at the age of 91. Over his career, he taught at a total of 13 institutions in seven countries. At the age of 19, Menges was one of the first Westerners to visit the Volga region and the Caucasus within the Soviet Union. He was quoted variously as saying he spoke between 24 and "over 50" languages, and said that when he came to the United States he was the only person in the country who could speak Uzbek. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972. He published numerous articles and 15 books; a revised edition of his The Turkic Languages and Peoples, first published in 1968, appeared in 1995. His articles, as well as his teaching, were characteristically interdisciplinary, and in addition to Altaic, he made important contributions to Slavic, Turkic, Tungusic, and Dravidian language studies. A complete thematically organized index of his publications appeared in 2006. (en)
- Karl Heinrich Menges (ur. 22 kwietnia 1908 we Frankfurcie nad Menem, zm. 20 września 1999 w Wiedniu) – niemiecki językoznawca, slawista i nostratyk. Kształcił się we Frankfurcie, Monachium i Berlinie. W 1937 r. objął stanowisko profesora na Uniwersytecie w Ankarze, a w 1940 r. zaczął wykładać na Uniwersytecie Columbia. W 1976 r. przeszedł na emeryturę. Jego dorobek obejmuje prace z zakresu turkologii, historii ludów ałtajskich oraz morfologii i etymologii języków nostratycznych (w ujęciu porównawczym). Zajmował się kontaktami międzyjęzykowymi oraz problematyką pokrewieństwa językowego. (pl)
- Karl Heinrich Menges (Frankfurt am Main, 22 de abril de 1908 – Viena, 20 de setembro de 1999) foi um linguista alemão, especializado em línguas altaicas. Fez parte do corpo docente académico da Universidade de Columbia em Nova Iorque e, posteriormente, ocupou o mesmo posto na academia da Universidade de Viena. (pt)
- Карл Генрих Менгес (нем. Karl Heinrich Menges; 22 апреля 1908, Франкфурт-на-Майне — 20 сентября 1999, Вена) — немецкий (позднее — американский) славист, тюрколог, алтаист. (ru)
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- Karl Heinrich Menges (* 22. April 1908 in Frankfurt am Main; † 20. September 1999 in Wien) war ein deutscher Turkologe, Tungusologe, Altaist, Slavist, Dravidologe und Nostratist. (de)
- Karl Heinrich Menges (ur. 22 kwietnia 1908 we Frankfurcie nad Menem, zm. 20 września 1999 w Wiedniu) – niemiecki językoznawca, slawista i nostratyk. Kształcił się we Frankfurcie, Monachium i Berlinie. W 1937 r. objął stanowisko profesora na Uniwersytecie w Ankarze, a w 1940 r. zaczął wykładać na Uniwersytecie Columbia. W 1976 r. przeszedł na emeryturę. Jego dorobek obejmuje prace z zakresu turkologii, historii ludów ałtajskich oraz morfologii i etymologii języków nostratycznych (w ujęciu porównawczym). Zajmował się kontaktami międzyjęzykowymi oraz problematyką pokrewieństwa językowego. (pl)
- Karl Heinrich Menges (Frankfurt am Main, 22 de abril de 1908 – Viena, 20 de setembro de 1999) foi um linguista alemão, especializado em línguas altaicas. Fez parte do corpo docente académico da Universidade de Columbia em Nova Iorque e, posteriormente, ocupou o mesmo posto na academia da Universidade de Viena. (pt)
- Карл Генрих Менгес (нем. Karl Heinrich Menges; 22 апреля 1908, Франкфурт-на-Майне — 20 сентября 1999, Вена) — немецкий (позднее — американский) славист, тюрколог, алтаист. (ru)
- Karl Heinrich Menges (April 22, 1908 – September 20, 1999) was a German linguist known for his advocacy of the Altaic hypothesis. He was a faculty member at Columbia University in New York and subsequently at the University of Vienna. (en)
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