PROKOSCH, Eduard. Eger, Bohemia (Cheb, Czechia) 15.3.1876 — New Haven, Conn. 11.8.1938. U.S. (born Austrian) Linguist, Specialist of IE and Germanic. Son of Wenzel Prokosch, a schoolmaster, and Marie Fischer. Studied jurisprudence at Prague and Vienna (advocate examination 1897). Emigrated to the U.S.A. 1898 (citizen 1904). Worked briefly as reporter in Baltimore, soon studied at National German-American Teachers’ Academy in Milwaukee, then at University of Chicago (M.A. 1901). Ph.D. 1905 Leipzig. Taught at University of Wisconsin in Madison from 1905-13. From 1913 Professor of German at University of Texas, but soon felt bitterly the anti-German hatred caused by WW I and in 1919 he was fired. Still in 1919 he got a position at Bryn Mawr College, taught there until 1928. From 1929 at Yale, 1931 Sterling Professor of Germanic Languages. Died in a car accident. He knew also Sanskrit. Married, two sons and one daughter.
Publications: Much on German and Germanics and on their IE background.
Sources: Wikipedia with photo (some further details in German version).
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