Guy Deutscher

Guy Deutscher was born in 1969 in Tel Aviv

Guy Deutscher was born in Tel Aviv in 1969. He later settled in Britain.

He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge for his first degree. He then earned a Ph.D. in linguistics at the same university. After that he did research in historical linguistics at St John's College, Cambridge.

He taught in the department of languages and cultures of Ancient Mesopotamia at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is an honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester. In 2011 his book Through the Language Glass was shortlisted for the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books.

He is married to Jane, a British literature scholar, and their daughter is the musician Alma Deutscher. The family lived in Dorking, Surrey, and moved to Vienna in 2018.