George Tobias Flom (April 12, 1871 – January 4, 1960) was an American professor of linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and author of numerous reference books.George T. Flom (Store norske leksikon)
Background He married Loretta Regina Muldoon (1876–1952) in 1899 and together they were parents of three children: George Reginald Flom, Elizabeth Edda Flom and Mary Antionette Flom, all of whom were born in Iowa City.
Career Along with historian and Old Norse translator Laurence M. Larson, Flom established the Scandinavian studies program at Illinois, and his influence was extensive. He supervised the doctoral dissertations of, among others, Ingebrigt Lillehei,McGlathery, James M. (1990). German and Scandinavian at Illinois: a History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press (p. 56) future University of Washington Scandinavian studies department chair and August Strindberg scholar Walter Gilbert Johnson (1905-1983)McGlathery, James M. (1990). German and Scandinavian at Illinois: a History, (pp. 64-65) as well as the noted Harvard University linguist Einar Haugen. (Johnson would later supervise the Vilhelm Moberg dissertation of University of Illinois Swedish professor Rochelle A. Wright.)McGlathery, James M. (1990). German and Scandinavian at Illinois: a History, Urbana: University of Illinois Press (p. 125).
He was also one of the earliest scholars to undertake a thorough investigation of the controversial Kensington Stone of Solem, Minnesota, publishing his findings twelve years after its discovery.
A so-called festschrift in Flom's honor came out in Urbana entitled Scandinavian Studies Presented to George T. Flom by Colleagues and Friends in 1942.
See also List of presidents of the Linguistic Society of America
Selected bibliography Flom, George T. (1900). Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch - New York City: Columbia University dissertation. Flom, George T. (1905). "Nominal and pronominal inflections of the Sogn dialects." In: Dialect Notes (publication of the American Dialect Society). Flom, George T. (1906). "Chapters on Scandinavian Immigration to Iowa." In: Iowa Journal of History and Politics. <https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/chaptersonscandi00flom/chaptersonscandi00flom.pdf> Flom, George T. (1907). "A History of the Scandinavian Studies in American Universities, Together with a Bibliography". In: Iowa studies in language and literature Oiwa City: The State university of Iowa.
Flom, George T. (1909).Frithiof's Saga by Esaias Tegnér. Introduction, Bibliography and Explanatory Notes (Chicago, 1909).
Flom, George T. (1912).Bjørnson's Synnøve Solbakken. Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary, Minneapolis.
Flom, George T. (1926). "English Loanwords in American Norwegian as Spoken in the Koshkonong Settlement, Wisconsin," American Speech (1:10): 541–558. Flom, George T. (1930). Introductory Old English Grammar and Reader, Boston: D.C. Heath and Company. Flom, George T. (1937). Old Norwegian General Law of the Gulathing: According to Codex Gl.k.S. 1154 Folio (located in the Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Flom, George T. trans. & ed. (1944). Bjornson, Synnøve Solbakken. Lutheran Free Church Publishing Co.
References Hustvedt, Lloyd (2001) "Guide to the Archives of the Norwegian-American Historical Association" Norwegian-American Historical Association.Larson, Laurence M. "The Norwegian Pioneer in the Field of American Scholarship" (Volume II: Page 62) The Norwegian-American Historical AssociationHaugen, Einar (1977), "Symra: A Memoir" (Volume 27: Page 101) The Norwegian-American Historical AssociationGeorge T. Flom Library (University Library. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
External links "University of Illinois Archives - George T. Flom Papers" "The Promise of America – George Tobias Flom" "Journal of English and Germanic Philology" "American Philological Association" "Linguistic Society of America"