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Kurath was born in [[Villach]], [[Austria]], and emigrated to the US in 1907 and became a US citizen in 1912. He studied at the universities of [[University of Texas|Texas]] and [[University of Chicago|Chicago]]. He did his Ph.D. in 1920. Afterwards he was professor for German at [[Northwestern University]] (1920–1927), then professor for German and Linguistics at the [[Ohio State University]] (1927–1931) and [[Brown University]] (1931–1946). In 1929 he initiated the American Linguistic Atlas Project. In 1946, finally, he became Full Professor for English and Linguistics at the [[University of Michigan]], Ann Arbor (1946–1962). In 1941 he was president of the [[Linguistic Society of America]]. In 1959 he received an honorary doctor's degree from the [[University of Chicago]].
He died in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]] at the age of 100. His wife was the ethnomusicologist [[Gertrude Prokosch Kurath]].
== Fields of interest ==
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