User:Babbage/Frank T. Siebert
Frank Thomas Siebert, Jr. | |
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| Born | March 2, 1912 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | January 23, 1998 (aged 85) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Known for | Classification of Native American languages |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Study of Algonquian languages |
Frank T. Siebert (March 2, 1912-January 23, 1998, in Bangor, Maine) was an American hospital pathologist, but he is best known for his work in linguistics, particularly as a specialist on Algonquian languages.
Life
Childhood and youth
Education
At the University of Pennsylvania, Frank Speck, an anthropologist specializing in the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples, nurtured Siebert’s special interest in Penobscot. [2]
Fieldwork
Personal life
marriages
Marion Paterson
Languages studied
Penobscot
Madeline Tomah Shay (last speaker)
Powhatan
Arapaho
Western Abenaki
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Micmac
Massachusett
Virginia Algonquian
Catawba
Book collecting
When, as an unpaid intern in 1939, he saw a copy of the rare 1806 second edition of David Zeisberger's Delaware Indian and English Spelling Book offered for (he recalled later) $6.50, he sold blood to be able to buy it.
Selected publications
Books
Penobscot-English Dictionary
Essays and articles
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"The Original Home of the Proto-Algonquian People"
References
- ^ Goddard, Ives (1998). "Frank T. Siebert, Jr. (1912-1998)". Anthropological Linguistics. 40 (3): 481–498. JSTOR 30028650.
- ^ Gregory, Alice (2021-04-12). "How Did a Self-Taught Linguist Come to Own an Indigenous Language?". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ Wolfart, H. Christoph (1977). "Another Algonquian Contribution to Historical Linguistics: Siebert's Powhatan". International Journal of American Linguistics. 43 (2): 162–165. JSTOR 1264938.