JOPSON, Norman Brooke. Leeds 20.1.1890 — Cambridge 13.1.1969. British Comparative Linguist. Professor in Cambridge. Son of Samuel Rolison Jopson. Educated at Merchant Taylor’s School, Crosby, from 1909 studies at Cambridge (St.John’s College, B.A. 1912), mainly French and German, but also Sanskrit and Comparative Philology. Further studies of Slavic and IE in…
HOPKINS, Grace Sturtevant. 14.7.1904 — Hamden, CT 12.3.2002. U.S. Student of IE Linguistics. Daughter of —> Edgar H. Sturtevant (1875–1952) and Elizabeth (Bessie) Skinner. Graduated 1924 from Vassar College. Ph.D. 1932 Yale. In 1931-62 living in New Jersey, then in Hamden, CT and Naples. Active in politics. Married Francis W.…
HOLMER, Nils Magnus. Göteborg 5.2.1904 — Vollsjö near Lund 10.6.1994. Swedish Linguist. Son of railway engineer Lars Magnus Holmer and elementary school teacher Anna Vilhelmina Lindström. Grew up in Kalmar. Studied Russian at Lund (fil.kand. 1925), also became interested in Indo-European. In 1926-29 studied Czech and Celtic at Prague. Lic.phil.…
HERMES, Gertrud Antonie. Berlin 23.9.1872 — Berlin 26.1.1942. German Teacher and Leftist Pedagog. Daughter of Oberkonsistorialrat Ottomar Hermes (1826–1893). In 1900-08 taught at a girls’ school in Berlin. After serious illness worked in a trade union, then 1912-14 attended Max Schering’s economic seminar. From 1921 taught at labour institutions for…
HENCKEN, Hugh O’Neill. New York City 8.1.1902 — Cape Cod 31.8.1981.U.S. Archaeologist. Born to an Irish American family, son of Albert Charles Hencken (1871–1951) and Mary Creighton O’Neill (1874–1929). Studies at Princeton and Cambridge. Ph.D. 1929 Cambridge, in Archaeology. From 1932 to his retirement in 1972 Curator of European archaeology at…
HELLER, Louis George. New York City 24.6.1927 — Teaneck, NJ 2.8.1997. U.S. Linguist. The only son of Benjamin Heller and Helen Edith Morse. Ph.D. Lecturer, then Professor at the College of the City of New York. Married Alice Levy (1928–2012), two daughters and two sons. Publications: Wrote on English, general…
GREENBERG, Joseph (Joe) Harold. Brooklyn, New York 28.5.1915 — Stanford, Calif. 7.5.2001. U.S. Linguist. Born in a Jewish family, father of Polish (original surname Zyto) and mother of German origin. After Hebrew elementary school studied Latin and German at James Madison High School. From 1932 college studies at Columbia (B.A.…
GOTTLIEB, Eugene (Jenő G.). Szepesség (then in Hungary, now Spiš in Slovakia) 28.7.1894 — New York City 28.12.1962. U.S. (born Hungarian Jew) Linguist. Son of Markus Moses Gottlieb (1854–1917) and Rose Rezl Guttman. Ph.D. at New York University. Instructor at Ohio State University (1931), then Assistant Professor of Germanic and…
GIMBUTAS, Marija (Lith. Marija Gimbutienė, born Marija Birutė Alseikaitė). Vilnius 23.1.1921 — Los Angeles 2.2.1994. Lithuanian Archaeologist in the U.S.A. Professor in Los Angeles. Daughter of two physicians, Danielius Alseika (1881–1936) and Veronika Janulaitytė-Alseikienė (1883–1971). In 1931 the family moved to Kaunas and parents divorced. After gymnasium in Kaunas studied linguistics…
DJUVERNUA, Aleksandr Lvovič (Alexandre Duvernoy). Moscow 1840 (geni.com 24.8.1839) — Moscow 16/28.3.1886.Russian Slavonic Linguist and Philologist. Born in a French family resident in Russia from 1810, son of Lev Karlovoč Djuvernua (Louis Frédéric Alexandre Duvernoy, b. Montbéliard 1812, d. Moscow 1847) and his wife Marija Dmitrievna. . After school in Moscow…