Edgar Charles Polomé (31 July 1920 – 11 March 2000) was a Belgian Indo-Europeanist, and professor of comparative religions and languages at the University of Texas. He studied at the Free University of Brussels from 1938, specializing in Germanic philology. In 1945, he joined the U.S. Army as an interpreter in Eschwege in Allied-occupied Germany. After the war, he completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Brussels in 1949. Polomé came to the University of Texas in 1960, where he became tenured at the Department of Germanic Languages.
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