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Menges taught at [[Columbia University]] in New York for 36 years, from 1940 to 1976. He had been invited to teach [[Slavic languages]]; the university discovered only after his arrival that he was a scholar of the then little-studied [[Altaic languages]].<ref name=NYT/> After his retirement from Columbia he taught at the [[University of Vienna]] until shortly before his death in [[Vienna]] at the age of 91.<ref name=NYT/><ref name=WaPo>[[Associated Press]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20141129085844/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19990925/aponline220837_000.htm "Obituaries in the News: Karl H. Menges"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', September 25, 1999.</ref> Over his career, he taught at a total of 13 institutions in seven countries.<ref name=Einleitung5>"Einleitung", in Michael Knüppel, ''Schriftenverzeichnis Karl Heinrich Menges nebst Index in den Werken behandelter Lexeme und Morpheme'', ''Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes'' Neue Beihefte 1, Vienna/Münster: Lit, 2006, {{ISBN|9783825886547}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HZz14p-Y_A4C&q=Einrichtungen+in+sieben&pg=PA6 p. 5] {{in lang|de}}.</ref>
At the age of 19, Menges was one of the first [[Westerners]] to visit the [[Volga region]] and the [[Caucasus]] within the [[Soviet Union]].<ref name=WaPo/> He was quoted variously as saying he spoke between 24 and "over 50" languages, and said that when he came to the [[United States]] he was the only person in the country who could speak [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]].<ref name=NYT/> He won a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in 1972.<ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/
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