Sol Steinmetz

Sol Steinmetz
BornJuly 29, 1930
Budapest, Hungary
DiedOctober 13, 2010(2010-10-13) (aged 80)
Manhattan, New York, USA
Occupation
Alma materYeshiva University (BA)
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary(semikhah)

Sol Steinmetz (July 29, 1930 – October 13, 2010) was a Hungarian American linguistics and lexicography expert who wrote extensively about etymologies, definitions and uncovered earliest recorded usages of words in English and Yiddish. A widely sought source on all things lexical, he earned recognition from William Safire in his On Language column in The New York Times Magazine in 2006 as a "lexical supermaven".[1]

  1. ^ Safire, William. "On Language: Arrant Nonsense", The New York Times Magazine, January 22, 2006. Accessed October 25, 2010.