STEMPEL, Guido Hermann. Ft.Madison, Iowa ?.5.1868 — Morgan county, Indiana 23.12.1955. U.S. Linguist, mainly Anglist, but also IE. Son of Hugo Christian Steeple (1833–1923) and Anna Barbara Degenhardt (1845–1930). Graduated 1889 from Iowa University, further studies at Leipzig, Chicago and Wisconsin. A.M. 1904 Wisconsin. Taught at Indiana University in Bloomington: Instructor 1894-98 and Assistant Professor of English 1898-1904, Associate Professor of Comparative Philology 1904-22, Professor of Comp. Philology 1922-38, the first head of the new department 1906-38. Retired in 1938. Married 1895 Myrtle Emmert (1873–1951), also an academic, children.
Publications: Wrote on English.
Sources: Who Was Who in America; findagrave.com with photo; webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Ar-VAA2733.
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