the wife of American intellectual Noam Chomsky, 95, denies the rumor of his death

Noam Chomsky has been released from the hospital to “continue his treatment at home”, announced the institution La Beneficência Portuguesa in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

American linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, was released from a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Tuesday June 18 and will continue his “treatment” at home, we learned from the hospital, denying false rumors about his death that had circulated on the internet.

The Beneficência Portuguesa de Sao Paulo indicated in a medical bulletin sent to AFP that “Patient Avran Noam Chomsky was released from the hospital to continue his treatment at home”without further details.

The hospital’s press release was released after unsourced information on the death of the 95-year-old intellectual appeared on social networks. “That’s not true, he’s fine.”, wrote his wife Valeria Chomsky, in response to an email from AFP. The American intellectual’s partner is Brazilian and the couple has had a residence in the city since 2015.

Several personalities have shared messages of sympathy for Noam Chomsky in recent weeks, particularly on social networks. According to the newspaper Folha de Sao PauloNoam Chomsky was hospitalized in the Brazilian city after suffering a stroke in June last year that affected the right side of his body.

Considered the founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky stated in his work Syntactic Structures (1957) that language is an innate faculty and that a “generative grammar”a set of universal rules of language, is written into the human brain.

But he has become a central figure of the 20th and 21st centuries above all for his role as a committed intellectual, in his radical criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and Israel, as well as of the media.

This opponent of the Vietnam War and the American invasion of Iraq also became close to Latin American left-wing leaders such as Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and the current Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. For many years, Noam Chomsky was a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.