SEBEOK, Thomas Albert (Hungarian Tamás Sebők). Budapest 9.11.1920 — Bloomington 21.12.2001. U.S. (born Hungarian) Linguist and Semiotician. Son of Dezső Sebők and Vera Perlmann. After school in Budapest moved to the U.S.A. when 17, naturalized 1944. B.A. 1941 University of Chicago. M.A. 1943 Princeton, in anthropological linguistics (under R. Jakobson).…
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:…
KAUFMANN, Walter. Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in Czech) 1.4.1907 — Bloomington 9.9.1984. Czech German composer, conductor and Musicologist in the U.S.A. Born in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire of Jewish parents, Julius Jakob K. (d. 1938) and Josefine Antonia Wagner. Studied music in Prague and Berlin, started his career as conductor…
HOUSEHOLDER, Fred Walter (Jr.). Wichita Falls, Texas 1.2.1918 — Bloomington 4.1.1994. U.S. Linguist. Professor in Bloomington. Son of Fred W. H. Sr. and Myrtle Smith, grew up in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Studies at University of Vermont (A.B. 1932) and Columbia University (A.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1941, diss. on Lucian). In…
HOFFMANN, Helmut. Flensburg 24.8.1912 — Holzkirchen (Oberbayern) 8.10.1992. German Indologist and Tibetologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Munich and Bloomington. Son of Erich H., a teacher. Gymnasium in Flensburg. From 1931 studies of Sanskrit and classics ar Freiburg i.Br., soon Indology, Iranian and Central Asian languages at Berlin, student of…