LANE, George Sherman. Clio, co. Wayne, Iowa 28.9.1902 — Chapel Hill, NC 18.9.1981. U.S. Linguist, Scholar of Germanic, IE, Celtic and Tocharian. Professor in Chapel Hill. Son of Franklin Gabriel Lane, a farmer, and Clara Jane Stuart. Educated at local school and State University of Iowa (B.A. 1926 in Comparative…
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:…
SCHWARTZ, Ben (Benjamin). 1905? — 26.12.1981. U.S. IE Linguist and Anatolian Scholar. Studies at New York University: A.B. and M.A. Ph.D. 193? Columbia. In 1956-75 Associate Professor of Classics at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, then retired. Publications: “Prakrit cia”, NIA 6, 1939, 420; articles on IE, Anatolian, etc. – With J. A.…
STRACHAN, John. Brae near Keith, Banffshire 31.1.1862 — Prestwich, Lancashire 25.9.1907. British (Scottish) Classical and Celtic Linguist. Son of farmer Jacob Strachan and Ann Kerr. After school in Keith, studies of Classics from 1877 at Aberdeen (M.A. 1881) and Cambridge (Pembroke College, B.A. 1885, Fellow 1886, M.A. 1889), then IE…
STUMPF, Peter. 26.1.1940 — 26.5.1977. German Tocharian Scholar. School in Berlin and from 1953 in Frankfurt. From 1959 studies of IE and Indology at Frankfurt. Ph.D. 1968 Frankfurt (under W. Thomas). Worked as Assistant at Frankfurt. Negative opinion of Thomas prevented the planned habilitation at Frankfurt. Died young of heart…
STORCK, Friedrich Wilhelm Paul. Letmathe, Kr. Iserlohn, Westfalen 5.7. 1829 — Münster 16.7.1905. German Linguist (German & Romance) interested in Pāli. Son of a teacher, educated in Arnsberg. From 1850 studies of Germanics at Munich, Münster, Bonn and Berlin. In Berlin also student of Bopp and Weber. Ph.D. 1858 Berlin.…
STEGMANN VON PRITZWALD, Kurt Friedrich Woldemar. Wenden/Livland (now Cēsis in Latvia) 12.6.1901 — Rottenburg/Neckar 21.12.1962. German (of Livonia) IE Linguist. Professor in Marburg. Son of agronomist Friedrich Percival St. von Pr. (1868–1938) and Alice Charlotte Neander. Educated in Riga (until 1918), Stettin and Meiningen. Participated as German voluntary in post-WW warfare…
SCHRIJNEN, Joseph Charles François Hubert. Venlo, Limburg 3.5.1869 — Nijmegen 26.1.1938. Mgr. Dutch IE Scholar. Professor in Nijmegen. Son of Adriaan Schrijnen, a chemist, and Maria Canoij, educated in Roermond. From 1888 studied classical philology and linguistics at Louvain (under de Harlez, Colinet, et al.) and Paris (de Saussure and…
STURTEVANT, Edgar Howard. Jacksonville, Ill. 7.3.1875 — Branford, CT 1.7.1952. U.S. IE and Hittite Scholar. Professor in New Haven. Son of Alfred Henry St. (1850–1930), a farmer, and Harriet Morse (1850–1923). After Indiana College in Jacksonville (it was founded by his grandfather) studies at Indiana University (A.B 1898) and University…
STREITBERG, Wilhelm. Rüdesheim 23.2.1864 — Leipzig 19.8.1925. German IE Scholar. Professor in Munich and Leipzig. Son of Gustav Streitberg, later Amtsgerichtsrat, and Wilhelmine Pauli. Gymnasium in Wiesbaden. From 1884 studies of Germanistics and comp. IE linguistics, firstat Münster (under Jacobi), soon at Leipzig (Brugmann, Leskien, Windisch andZarncke). Ph.D. 1888 Leipzig.…