Samuel Stehman Haldeman

Samuel Stehman Haldeman.

Samuel Stehman Haldeman (born August 12, 1812 in Locust Grove , Pennsylvania , † September 10, 1880 in Chickies , Pennsylvania) was an American naturalist and linguist .

Live and act

Haldeman studied at Dickinson College in Carlisle and moved to Chickies in 1835, where he and his brothers founded an iron foundry. In his spare time he occupied himself with natural sciences, especially with conchology , and published the work Monograph of the Limniades, or freshwater univalve shells of the United States (Philadelphia 1842), which was particularly well received in France. In 1844 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society , in 1850 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1876 to the National Academy of Sciences . His most important linguistic writings include Elements of Latin pronunciation (1851, 2nd edition 1873); Analytic orthography (1860), for which he received the £ 100 award advertised by Walter Calverley Trevelyan , President of the Phonetic Society of Great Britain; The rhymes of the poets (1868), a collection of bad rhyming examples; Pennsylvania Dutch , a representation of the Pennsylvania German colloquial language (1872); Outlines of etymology (1877) and Word-building (from the estate, 1881). From 1869 he was professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania .

Memberships

In 1842 Haldeman was introduced by John Clarkson Jay as member number 261 of the Société cuviérienne .

literature

• Société Cuvierienne: Nouveaux membres admis dans la Société curvienne . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 5 , 1842, pp. 203 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

• More detailed biography

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member History: Samuel S. Haldeman. American Philosophical Society, accessed September 19, 2018 . 
2. ^ Société cuviérienne, p. 203.