Early Etruscan Inscriptions: Fabretti 2343-2346 1911
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The Easiest German Reading for Learners, Young or Old: English Nursery Rhymes in German, With Questions for Drill Speaking and Writing (Classic Reprint)
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Whist Scores and Card-Table Talk: With a Bibliography of Whist (Classic Reprint)
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George Hempl was an American philologist. He was professor of English philology and general linguistics at the University of Michigan from 1897 to 1906.
Background
George Hempl was born on June 6, 1859, at Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States, the son of Henry Theodore and Anna (Hiintzsche) Hempel, from Dresden, of German and Slavic descent. When he was six years old the family moved to Chicago, and two years later to Battle Creek, Michigan.
Education
In 1879 George Hempl graduated from the classical course in the University of Michigan.
From 1887 to 1889 he studied in the universities of Berlin, Gottingen, Jena, Strassburg and Tübingen, and in 1889 took the degree of A Doctor of Philosophy at Jena. Among the scholars who most influenced him were Eduard Sievers and Ernst Haeckel.
Career
George Hempl was teacher and principal in the high schools of Saginaw, Michigan, and La Porte, Indiana, for five years, and instructor in German in the Johns Hopkins University, 1884-1886. In 1889 he returned to the University of Michigan, where he served as assistant professor of English, 1889-1893, junior professor, 1893-1897, and professor of English philology and general linguistics from 1897 to 1906. From January 1907 till his death he was professor of Germanic philology in the Leland Stanford Junior University.
Hempl's main interest throughout his life was in adding to knowledge, and with this he was unwilling to allow even his teaching to interfere. His productions, numbering nearly a hundred and fifty titles, are chiefly articles and notes in learned periodicals. The larger number are on the etymology, meaning, usage and pronunciation of single words, especially in modern and early English. Many are on the development of English sounds and other phonological matters. For this work he had the special qualifications of a strongly auditory memory, imagination, and analytical ability.
His knowledge of American dialects was immense and minute. No subject interested him more, and his mind was continuously alert to it. In companies of people he would hang on the words of a fluent talker, whose gratification was sometimes dashed by discovering that the attraction had been some unsuspected local peculiarity of his own speech.
Among Hempl’s most important publications are a dozen papers on the origin of the Germanic runes and interpretations of runic inscriptions. This interest in early writing drew him to studies on some of the obscurer languages of Mediterranean countries, and on their methods of representing sounds, studies which filled his later years. These might have been his most important contribution had his health not failed about 1914, and also had he not been prone to be off after some new problem before he had finished with the old.
Hempl became particularly interested in the non-Latin languages of ancient Italy, Venetic and especially Etruscan, which he believed to be Italic. Later he turned to the pictographic writing of the near East. He studied some of the “Minoan-Greek inscriptions in Crete, and, beginning about 1912, some of the Hittite inscriptions in Asia Minor, which he believed to be in an early form of Attm Greek. While at times he guessed wildly, and often failed to see difficulties, he had a rare grasp of the principles involved and extraordinary resourcefulness.