SEBEOK, Thomas Albert

SEBEOK, Thomas Albert (Hungarian 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). Ph.D. 1945…

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STEMPEL, Guido Herman

STEMPEL, Guido Hermann. Ft.Madison, Iowa ?.5.1868 — 23.12.1955. U.S. Linguist, mainly Anglist, but also IE. 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,…

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KAUFMANN, Walter

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…

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HOUSEHOLDER, Fred W.

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…

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HOFFMANN, Helmut

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…

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