Albert C. Baugh

Albert Croll Baugh (February 26, 1891 – March 21, 1981) was a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, best known as the author of a textbook for History of the English language (HEL).^[1] His A History of the English Language was first published in 1935 and praised as "worthy to take a place with the other great histories of single languages".^[2]^[3] It was revised by Baugh for a second edition published in 1957 and it remains in print, edited by Thomas Cable (by Baugh and Cable from the third edition, 1978).

Biography

Baugh was born in Philadelphia, earned his Master of Arts (M.A.) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and taught in its English department from 1912, as a reader, to 1961.^[4]

Baugh was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1946.^[5]

Baugh died at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital on March 21, 1981 at age 90. He was survived by his wife, formerly Nita Scudder, and two sons.^[4] One of his sons was the noted historian of British naval administration, Daniel A. Baugh of Cornell University.

Selected works

A Literary History Of England (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948), editor — Baugh wrote the second of four parts, "The Middle English Period, 1100–1500"^[6]
A History of the English Language (D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935) — six editions to 2013, the last four by Baugh and Thomas Cable

References

^ Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Albert Croll Baugh (1891-1981)".
^ Kent, Ronald G. (1936). "Rev. of Baugh, A History of the English Language". Language. 12 (1): 72–75. doi:10.2307/409029. JSTOR 409029.
^ Bloomfield, Morton C. (1958). "Rev. of Baugh, A History of the English Language". Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 57 (4): 796. JSTOR 27707189. Review of the second edition (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1957), the last by Baugh alone.
^ ^a ^b "Albert C. Baugh Is Dead; Noted Medieval Scholar". The New York Times. March 27, 1981. Retrieved 2013-09-14.
^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
^ "A literary history of England". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-09-13.