# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-lee-whorf
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:36:01.576Z

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name: "Benjamin Lee Whorf"
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description: "Benjamin Atwood Lee Whorf was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer best known for proposing the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. He believed that the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world. Whorf saw this idea, named after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, as having implications similar to those of Einstein's principle of physical relativity. However, the concept originated from 19th-century philosophy and thinkers like Wilhelm von Humboldt and Wilhelm Wundt."
tagline: "American linguist (1897–1941)"
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birthDate: "1897-04-24"
deathDate: "1941-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump