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Haldeman was born on August 12, 1812 in Bainbridge, Pennsylvania.
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naturalist philologist professor
Haldeman was born on August 12, 1812 in Bainbridge, Pennsylvania.
Haldeman attended a classical school in Harrisburg and later Dickinson College.
In 1851 Haldeman 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 till his death, which occurred at Chickies, Pennsylvania, on the 10th of September 1880. Haldeman made numerous visits to Europe for purposes of research, and when studying the human voice in Rome determined the vocal repertoire of 40-50 varieties of human speech. His ear was remarkably delicate, and he discovered a new organ of sound in lepidopterous insects, which was described by him in Benjamin Silliman's American Journal of Science in 1848. He made extensive researches among Amerindian dialects, and also in Pennsylvania Dutch, besides investigations in the English, Chinese, and other languages. Haldeman was an earnest advocate of spelling reform. His writings include Freshwater Univalve Mollusca 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); and Word-Building (1881).
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Haldeman was a member of many scientific societies, was the founder and president of the American Philological Association, and one of the early members of the National Academy of Sciences.
