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.

Haldeman studied at Dickinson College at Carlisle and moved in 1835 Chickins, where he established an iron foundry with his brothers. He studied in his leisure hours diligently with the natural sciences, especially with the Conchologie, and gave the now rare work " Monograph of the Limniades, or freshwater univalve shells of the United States " ( Philad. 1842 ) found that low especially in France was added. Of his linguistic writings we mention: "Elements of Latin pronunciation " (1851, 2nd edition 1873); " Analytic orthography " (1860 ), for which he the Trevelyan, President of the Phonetic Society of Great Britain, the advertised price of £ 100 sterling. received; further: "The rhymes of the poets" (1868 ), a collection of bad rhyme examples; " Pennsylvania Dutch ", a representation of the simpler Pennsylvania German colloquial language (1872 ); " Outlines of etymology " (1877 ) and " Word -building" ( from the estate, 1881). Since 1869 he was a professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

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