Wolfgang Klein (born February 3, 1946) is a German linguist and a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Klein then studied German, Romance languages and philosophy at the Saarland University, where he received his doctorate in 1970.
[5] Klein writes regularly in the Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (Journal for Literary Studies and Linguistics), which he co-founded in 1970.
In 1994, Klein became a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, where he heads the Digital Dictionary of the German Language.
[6] In 1996, Klein received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation.