Aleksandr Leping

Aleksandr Andreyevich Leping (Alexander Leping, Александр Андреевич Лепинг; 29 January 1894 in St. Petersburg - 6 April 1968 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian linguist and lexicographer.

Aleksandr Leping was born in St. Petersburg in the family of a hereditary honorary citizen, inspector of the English Commercial School, Latvian by nationality Andrei Leping. Mother - Louise Leping (née Johannsen), a teacher. He graduated from Saint Peter's School in St. Petersburg in 1911, studied at Yuryev and St. Petersburg universities (1911-1914), then graduated with honours from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1937. He was a World War I veteran and served in the Red Army in 1917–1923.

Leping worked as a teacher, head of department, dean of the Faculty of German at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. He authored several fundamental German-Russian and Russian-German dictionaries.

He is buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

Literature

 * Leping, Aleksandr. Russisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moskva : Izdatel'stvo Russkij Jazyk, 1988
 * Leping, Aleksandr. Nemecko-russkij slovar. Teil: A-J. Moskva : Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo inostrannych i nacional'nych slovarey, 1962
 * Leping, Aleksandr. Nemecko-russkij slovar. Teil: J-Z. Moskva : Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo inostrannych i nacional'nych slovarey, 1962