Henry R. Kahane (2 November 1902 in Berlin – 11 September 1992 in Urbana, Illinois) was a Romance philologist and linguist.
[1][2] After obtaining their PhDs, Henry and Renée Kahane moved to Florence and spent several years collecting a large corpus of Venetian loanwords used in Greek dialects.
[4] From 1939 to 1941 Henry Kahane worked as a research assistant in comparative literature at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
[7] Henry and Renée Kahane are estimated to have had a scholarly output of at least a dozen books and well over one hundred and fifty other publications dealing with various aspects of literary history and linguistics, such as etymology, Romance and Mediterranean lexicography, stylistics, morphology, and dialectology.
[9] Henry Kahane was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1955 and in 1962[10] and served as President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1984.