Maximilian D. Berlitz
Maximilian Berlitz was born in Germany in 1852, the son of a family of teachers and mathematicians. Berlitz took an interest in languages; not only did he speak English, French and German along with several other European languages, he studied many other languages including Latin, Greek and even some Scandinavian and Slavic languages. He emigrated to the United States in 1870, settling in Westerly, Rhode Island. In 1877 Berlitz moved to Providence, Rhode Island where he was an instructor of languages at the Bryant and Stratton National Business College, later to become Warner's Polytechnic Business College after an ownership change. It was one year later, in 1878, that he developed the Berlitz Method and opened the first Berlitz language school.
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