Famous People with Name Trager

George Leonard Trager            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Leonard Trager: was an American linguist. He was born March 22, 1906, in Newark, New Jersey; he died on August 31, 1992, in Pasadena, California. He was the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1960.During his years at Yale in the 1930s and '40s he was a close associate of Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Charles Hockett, and after 1941, Leonard Bloomfield. From 1937, he collaborated with Benjamin Whorf on historical-comparative Azteco-Tanoan, but further planned collaboration was cut short by Whorf's death in 1941. He wrote the entries on Language and Linguistics for the 14th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Like Sapir and Swadesh, he was a consultant of the International Auxiliary Language Association, which presented Interlingua in 1951.[1]

Ernst Träger            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ernst Träger: is a German judge. He was a judge in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany between 1977 and 1989.