Background
Kökeritz, Karl August Helge was born on August 24, 1902 in Garde, Gotland, Sweden. Son of Karl August Herman and Maria Karolina Amalia (Sandelin) Kökeritz.
Kökeritz, Karl August Helge was born on August 24, 1902 in Garde, Gotland, Sweden. Son of Karl August Herman and Maria Karolina Amalia (Sandelin) Kökeritz.
Student of University Heidelberg, summer 1921.
Came to the United States, 1939. Teacher shorthand and English, Municipal Commercial College, Uppsala, Sweden, 1922-1933. Associate Professor of English, Uppsala University, 1932-1944, on leave of absence, 1939-1944.
Professor and head English department, Norra Real Junior College, Stockholm, Sweden, 1942-1944, on leave, 1942-1944.
Honorary fellow of faculty, University of Wisconsin, spring semester 1940. Visiting lecturer in English, University of Iowa, spring semester 1941.
Visiting Professor of English, University of Minnesota, 1941-1943. Research fellow Harvard and lecturer in Swedish, 1943-1944.
Professor of English, Yale, since 1944.
Member editorial staff Hermod Corresponding College, Malmö, Sweden, since 1928. Honorary fellow American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1941-1942. Guggenheim fellow, 1943-1944, 1950-1951.
Honorary member Gotlands Nation (Uppsala), 1944.
Member Uppsala (editor yearbook 1937-1938) and English place-name societies, Mediaeval Academy American, American Name Society, Modern Language Association, linguistic societies Uppsala and American, Royal Academy Arts and Sciences of Uppsala (correspondence).