Christopher Ehret, Date of Birth

Christopher Ehret

American historian

Date of Birth: 27-Jul-1941

Profession: historian, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Christopher Ehret (born July 27, 1941), who currently holds the position of Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, is an American scholar of African history and African historical linguistics particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archeological record.
He has published ten books, most recently History and the Testimony of Language (2011) and A Dictionary of Sandawe (2012), the latter co-edited with his wife, Patricia Ehret.
He has written around seventy scholarly articles on a wide range of historical, linguistic, and anthropological subjects.
These works include monographic articles on Bantu subclassification; on internal reconstruction in Semitic; on the reconstruction of proto-Cushitic and proto-Eastern Cushitic; and, with Mohamed Nuuh Ali, on the classification of the Soomaali languages.
He has also contributed to a number of encyclopedias on African topics and on world history.