Samuel Stehman Haldeman

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Samuel Stehman Haldeman.
Samuel Stehman Haldeman.

Samuel Stehman Haldeman (August 12, 1812September 10, 1880), American naturalist and philologist, was born at Locust Grove, Pennsylvania.

He was educated at Dickinson College, and in 1851 was appointed professor of the natural sciences in the University of Pennsylvania. In 1855 he went to Delaware College, where he filled the same position, but in 1869, he returned to the university of Pennsylvania as professor of comparative philology and remained there untill his death, which occurred at Chickies, Pennsylvania.

His writings include:

  • Freshwater Univalve Molliesca of the United States (1840)
  • Zoological Contributions (1842–1843)
  • Analytic Orthography (1860)
  • Tours of a Chess Knight (1864)
  • Pennsylvania Dutch, a Dialect of South German with an Infusion of English (1872)
  • Outlines of Etymology (1877)
  • Word-Building (1881).

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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