Gabriel Altmann (24 May 1931 – 2 March 2020) was a Slovak-German linguist and mathematician.
He spent much of his career as a professor at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.
[1] Over his long career, Altmann authored numerous books and articles focused on quantitative linguistics.
[3] Altmann made key contributions to establishing the fundamental principles of quantitative linguistics.
His research applied mathematical and statistical methods to analyze various facets of language, from word length distributions to syntactic structures.