All Things Bakelite

The Age of Plastic

  • About
  • Press
  • News
    • News
    • Newsletter Archive
  • Leo Baekeland
    • Diaries
    • Timeline
  • Gallery
    • Additional Video/Radio Content
    • Music Videos
    • Personal
    • Leo’s Lab
    • History, Industry & Science
    • Products, Art, Ads & Publications
    • On Location
  • Links
  • Contact
  • Remembering Hugh Karraker
Home » Timeline Stories » Leo learns English and German

Leo learns English and German

1878 to 1880 the years he was at technical school in Ghent where he learned English and German because of the economic importance of these languages. (As it was and still is in Belgium, French was his second language after Dutch).

  • Home
  • Press
  • Contact

Copyright © 2025 The L.H. Baekeland Project, LLC • All Rights Reserved