David Hennen Morris
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Dave Hennen Morris (24 April 1872-4 May 1944) was born in New Orleans to Cora Hennen and John A. Morris. In 1896, he graduated from Harvard University. He became an attorney and later a diplomat. With his wife Alice Vanderbilt Morris, he co-founded the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA), which in 1951 would present Interlingua to the general public. He was treasurer of IALA from its establishment in 1924 to his death in 1944. His son, Lawrence, then assumed the position.
From 1933 to 1937, he was US Ambassador to Belgium and Envoy to Luxemburg. During this joint appointment, he resided in Belgium, where he and his wife continued to make international contacts for the language that would later take the name Interlingua. He also was Vice President of the Research Corporation and Counselor of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation, where Ezra Clark Stillman was Secretary.
[edit] References
- Bray, Mary Connell [1951] (1971), "Foreword", Interlingua-English: A dictionary of the international Language, Second Edition, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8044-0188-8. OCLC 162319.
[edit] External links
- Biographias: Dave Hennen Morris, Historia de Interlingua, 2001, Revised 2006.
