| George Tobias Flom | |
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| Born | 4/12/1871 Utica, Wisconsin |
| Died | 1960 |
| Nationality | United States |
George T. Flom (born April 12, 1871 - 1960) was an American professor of linguistics and author of numerous reference books.
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Dr. Flom was a professor of Scandinavian languages and literature at the University of Iowa (1900-1909) and at the University of Illinois (1909-1927). In 1911 he was an organizer of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study and served as editor of that society’s journal. He was also an associate editor of the Journal of English and Germanic Philology. He was a linguist, a member of the American Philological Society and in 1936, was the president of the Linguistic Society of America.[1] His areas of expertise included Scandinavian paleography and philology, Norse literature and comparative linguistics relating to English, German and the Scandinavian languages. [2]
As an author, articles by Flom frequently appears in the literary magazine Symra. Flom was the author of A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States: From the Earliest Beginning Down to the Year 1848. In this 1909 study, Dr. Flom laid out the establishment of early Norwegian immigrant settlement in North America starts with the settlement of Orange County, New York by Norwegian immigrants, known as "Sloopers." The study follows the journey of Norwegian immigrants as they settled in communities principally located in Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. [3]
George T. Flom Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign contains the former personal library of Dr. Flom. It consisted largely of collections of Danish, Swedish, Old Norse, Icelandic, Faroese, and Norwegian language, literature, and culture. [4]
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