Alexander Gottfried Friedrich Gode-von-Aesch or simply Alexander Gode ( October 30 , 1906 - August 10 , 1970 ) a German-American linguist and translator . He helped create Interlingua . Alexander Gottfried Friedrich Gode-von-Aesch or simply Alexander Gode ( October 30 , 1906 in Bremen - August 10 , 1970 in Mount Kisco , New York ) was a German-American linguist , translator and the driving force behind the creation of the auxiliary language Interlingua .