History of Whitewater, (Walworth County) Wisconsin United States of America

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A Short Biography of George Hempl

George Hempl, educator, was born at Whitewater, Wis., June 6, 1859; son of Henry Theodore and Anna (Haentzsehe) Hempel, both natives of Dresden, Germany. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1879, and was principal of the high schools at Saginaw, Mich., 1879-82, and La Porte, Ind., 1882-84; and an instructor in German at Johns Hopkins university, 1884-86. He studied at G?ttingen, T?bingen, Strassburg, Jena and Berlin, 1886-89, and received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Jena in 1889. He was assistant professor, then junior professor of English at the University of Michigan, 1889-97, and was made professor of English philology and general linguistics in 1897. He wrote in part under the pen-name Rudolf H. Rheinhardt, and is the author of: Whist Scores and Card-Table Talk (1887); Old-English Phonology (1892); Chaucer's Pronunciation (1893); German Orthography and Phonology (1897); English Nursery Rimes in German (1898); a German Grammar (1900), and many contributions to periodicals.

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