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
[edit]Childhood and youth
[edit]Education
[edit]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
[edit]Personal life
[edit]marriages
Marion Paterson
Languages studied
[edit]Penobscot
[edit]Madeline Tomah Shay (last speaker)
Powhatan
[edit]Arapaho
[edit]Western Abenaki
[edit]Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
[edit]Micmac
[edit]Massachusett
[edit]Virginia Algonquian
[edit]Catawba
[edit]Book collecting
[edit]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
[edit]Books
[edit]Penobscot-English Dictionary
Essays and articles
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"The Original Home of the Proto-Algonquian People"
References
[edit]- ^ 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.