Albert C. Baugh

Albert Croll Baugh (1891 – March 21, 1981) was a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, best known as the author of a textbook for History of the English language ("HEL" at U.S. universities). His A History of the English Language was first published in 1935 and praised as "worthy to take a place with the other great histories of single languages".[1][2] It was revised by Baugh for a second edition published in 1957 and it remains in print, edited by Thomas Cable (by Baugh and Cable from the third edition, 1978).

Baugh was born in Philadelphia, earned his MA and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in that city, and taught in its English department from 1912, as a reader, to 1961.[3]

His obituary in The New York Times mentioned his work on the "language and culture of the Middle Ages" alongside that on English language.[3]

Baugh died at the university hospital in 1981 at age 90. He was survived by his wife, formerly Nita Scudder, and two sons.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Kent, Ronald G. (1936). "Rev. of Baugh, A History of the English Language". Language 12 (1): 72–75. doi:10.2307/409029.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Albert C. Baugh Is Dead; Noted Medieval Scholar". The New York Times. March 27, 1981. Retrieved 2013-09-14.
  4. ↑ "A literary history of England". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-09-13.

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