About Guy Deutscher
Born 1969. Guy Deutscher is a Dutch and Israeli linguist and university teacher.
Guy Deutscher (; born 1969) is an Israeli linguist.
Career Deutscher is an honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester and was a professor in the department of languages and cultures of Ancient Mesopotamia at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He received an undergraduate degree in mathematics at University of Cambridge, before going on to earn a Ph.D. in linguistics there. After that he undertook research in historical linguistics at St John's College, Cambridge.
Deutscher is the father of Alma Deutscher, a former child prodigy composer and musician.
Awards and honours 2011 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, shortlist, Through the Language Glass
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Who is Guy Deutscher?
Israeli linguist
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Guy Deutscher was born in 1969 in Tel Aviv, Jaffa.
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Guy Deutscher is a linguist and university teacher.
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Guy Deutscher is Dutch and Israeli.
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