Albert C. Baugh

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Albert Croll Baugh ( February 26, 1891 - March 21, 1981 ) was Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania .

Life

Baugh was born in Philadelphia, where he also earned an MA and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania . He worked at that university for almost fifty years, from 1912 to 1961. Baugh died in 1981 in his hometown university hospital at the age of 90. An obituary in The New York Times recognized his work on medieval studies as well as his linguistic achievements. Since 1946 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .

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Baugh is best known for his textbook A History of the English Language. . The book was first published in 1935 and was soon recognized as exemplary. He revised the work for a second edition in 1957 and it has been in print ever since. In 1978 Thomas Cable got a third edition.

Selected publications

  • A Literary History Of England (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948), Editorial Board. Baugh wrote the second of four parts, "The Middle English Period, 1100-1500".
  • A History of the English Language . D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935. Six editions through 2013, the last four by Baugh and Thomas Cable.

literature

  • Who's Who in America: a biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. : volume 28 (1954-1955). Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1955, p. 165.
  • Albert C. Baugh Is Dead; Noted Medieval Scholar. in: The New York Times , March 27, 1981. HJ Raymond & Co., New-York, NY, 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Albert C. Baugh Is Dead; Noted Medieval Scholar". The New York Times, March 27, 1981, accessed September 14, 2013
  2. ^ Member History: Albert C. Baugh. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 24, 2018 .
  3. ^ Kent, Ronald G. (1936). "Rev. of Baugh, A History of the English Language". Language 12 (1): 72-75.
  4. ↑ Bloomfield, Morton C. (1958). "Rev. of Baugh, A History of the English Language". Journal of English and Germanic Philology 57 (4): 796. Review of the second edition (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957), the last by Baugh alone.
  5. ^ "A literary history of England". Library of Congress Catalog Record, accessed September 13, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Baugh, Albert C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baugh, Albert Croll (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist and medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1981
Place of death Philadelphia , Pennsylvania