History of Centre, (Perry County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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A Short Biography of George Allison Hench

George Allison Hench, educator, was born in Centre, Perry county, Pa., Oct. 4. 1866; son of George and Rebecca (Allison) Hench and grandson of Peter and Elizabeth (Ickes) Hench and of James and Mary (Caldwell) Allison. He was a student at Dickinson college, at Carlisle, Pa., 1881-82, and was graduated from Lafayette in 1885. He was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins university, 1885-89, studying also at tile University of Berlin, and in Vienna. He was a fellow in German at Johns Hopkins university, 1888-89, and spent another year in study at Heidelberg and Berlin. He was instructor in German at the Uuiversity of Michigan, 1890-91; assistant professor of German, 1891-96, and professor of Germanic languages and literatures and head of the German department, 1896-99. He was elected a member of the American Philological association and of the Modern Language association. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins university in 1889. He edited The Monsee Fragments (1890) and Der Althochdeutsche Isidor (1893), and is the author of contributions to Germanic philology in Paul und Braune's Beitr?ge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Litterattur and in the Journal of Germanic Philology, also of reviews for the Modern Language Notes. He died in Boston, Mass., Aug. 16, 1899.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor