Aleksandr Leping information

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Aleksandr Andreyevich Leping (Alexander Leping, Russian: Александр Андреевич Лепинг; 29 January 1894 in St. Petersburg - 6 April 1968 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian linguist and lexicographer.

Aleksandr Leping was born in St. Petersburg in the family of a hereditary honorary citizen, inspector of the English Commercial School, Latvian by nationality Andrei Leping. Mother - Louise Leping (née Johannsen), a teacher. He graduated from Saint Peter's School in St. Petersburg in 1911,^[1] studied at Yuryev and St. Petersburg universities (1911-1914), then graduated with honours from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1937. He was a World War I veteran and served in the Red Army in 1917–1923.

Leping worked as a teacher, head of department, dean of the Faculty of German at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. He authored several fundamental German-Russian and Russian-German dictionaries.

He is buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow.