Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz was the founder of the Berlitz Language Schools in 1878, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was born an orphan with his sister in Württemberg, Germany in 1852 and grew up in a family of educators in the Black Forest. He later moved to France and then to the US. Berlitz started as a teacher at Warner Polytechnic College as a teacher of French and German and took over the school when the owner of the school, Mr Warner, … Wikipedia
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