Edgar de Wahl
Edgar von Wahl | |
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 Edgar de Wahl | |
| Born | 23 August 1867 |
| Died | 9 March 1948 (aged 80) |
| Citizenship | Russia (1867 – 1918) Estonia (1917 – 1948) |
| Known for | Inventor of Interlingue a.k.a. Occidental |
Edgar Alexei Robert von Wahl or de Wahl (23 August 1867 – 9 March 1948) was a Baltic German teacher, mathematician and linguist. He is most famous for being the creator of Interlingue (known as Occidental throughout his life), a naturalistic constructed language based on the Indo-European languages, which was initially published in 1922.