BARBOUR, Philip Lemont. Louisville, Kentucky 21.12.1898 — Petersburg, Virginia 21.12.1980. U.S. Linguist, Historian and Radio Broadcaster. Son of Philip Foster Barbour (1867–1944), a physician, and Jessie A. Lemont (1872–1947). In 1910 moved with his divorced mother ans sisters to New York. Studies of history and languages at Columbia and Cornell Universities, but never graduated. For a while lived in the South-West and in Mexico, in 1929-34 in Italy working as a journalist and in radio. Back in the U.S.A. in 1937, now in radio work in Boston and New York. In 1942-46 served in the army, then in U.S. military government in Berlin to 1948. In 1948-53 in Radio Free Europe. Finally living in Newton, Connecticut until the end of his life. Married 1926 Consuelo Seggerman (1902–1973), divorce 1929.
Publications: “Buruçaskī, a Language of Northern Kashmir”, JAOS 41, 1921, 60-72.
– Later published a number of books on American and European history.
Sources: His personal life is poorly known, but the long Wikipedia article contains many details, with full reference to sources.
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