Max Mangold (German pronunciation: [ˈmaks ˈmaŋɡɔlt];[1][2] 8 May 1922 – 3 February 2015) was a Swiss-German linguist and phonetician.
He was born in the village of Pratteln near Basel, Switzerland and taught phonetics, phonology and linguistic theory at the University of the Saarland in Germany.
He also oversaw scientific theses, dissertations (nearly 100 of them, many the first and only records of endangered languages) and other publications, for example on dialects in the Saarland[7] and the Rhineland-Palatinate.
His work afterward included service as an interpreter for the United Nations from 1953–1954 during the Korean War for French, German, English, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Swedish and Chinese.
[10] After receiving his doctorate under Walther von Wartburg and habilitation in Basel in 1956,[11] he was appointed a full professor of phonetics at the University of the Saarland in Germany in 1957 after lecturing at universities in Basel, Zurich and Bonn.