Son of Albert M. Marckwardt & Anna Miller per m. cert.
Spouces:
Margaret Reed
Grace Adalaide McCarroll
Maybella
Evening Star - Washington D.C. - Saturday, August 23, 1975
ALBERT H. MARCKWARDT, 71, LANGUAGE AUTHORITY, DIES
Albert H. Harckwardt, 71, a former professor of English and linguistics at Princeton University and an official of several major language associations, died Wednesday while on a vacation business trip in London. He lived on Kenwood Avenue in Chevy Chase.
Marckwardt was an authority of the history and structure of the English language and was the author and editor of a number of books in those fields. A Phi Beta Kappa, he was a president of the National Council of Teachers of English, the Linguistic Society of America and the American Dialect Society. He also was a vice chairman of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Marckwardt was a member of the English faculty at the University of Michigan from 1928 to 1963, a professor from 1987 to 1963 and a director of its English Language Institute before he joined the Princeton faculty in 1963. He retired from Princeton as professor emeritus in 1972.
He also was a former chairman of the advisory panel on English in the U.S. Information Agency's teaching division, a former language development consultant to the U.S. Office of Education, an advisor to the committee of the Foreign Service Institute at the State Department.
Marckwardtwas a Fulbright lecturer in Austria in 1953 and 1954 and in Japan in 1968. He was the director of the English Language Institute in Mexico City in 1971 and last year was a senior fellow of the East-West Center in Honolulu.
He authored Introduction to the English Language, American English and Linguistics and the Teaching of English and was the former editor of Historical Outline of English Sounds and Inflections. He received his BA,MA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
He leaves his wife, Maybella D., and three children by a former marriage, Albert McCarroll, of London: Judith Getis, of Princeton, N.J. and Elizabeth Oliver, of Fredericksburg, Va.
Spouces:
Margaret Reed
Grace Adalaide McCarroll
Maybella
Evening Star - Washington D.C. - Saturday, August 23, 1975
ALBERT H. MARCKWARDT, 71, LANGUAGE AUTHORITY, DIES
Albert H. Harckwardt, 71, a former professor of English and linguistics at Princeton University and an official of several major language associations, died Wednesday while on a vacation business trip in London. He lived on Kenwood Avenue in Chevy Chase.
Marckwardt was an authority of the history and structure of the English language and was the author and editor of a number of books in those fields. A Phi Beta Kappa, he was a president of the National Council of Teachers of English, the Linguistic Society of America and the American Dialect Society. He also was a vice chairman of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Marckwardt was a member of the English faculty at the University of Michigan from 1928 to 1963, a professor from 1987 to 1963 and a director of its English Language Institute before he joined the Princeton faculty in 1963. He retired from Princeton as professor emeritus in 1972.
He also was a former chairman of the advisory panel on English in the U.S. Information Agency's teaching division, a former language development consultant to the U.S. Office of Education, an advisor to the committee of the Foreign Service Institute at the State Department.
Marckwardtwas a Fulbright lecturer in Austria in 1953 and 1954 and in Japan in 1968. He was the director of the English Language Institute in Mexico City in 1971 and last year was a senior fellow of the East-West Center in Honolulu.
He authored Introduction to the English Language, American English and Linguistics and the Teaching of English and was the former editor of Historical Outline of English Sounds and Inflections. He received his BA,MA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
He leaves his wife, Maybella D., and three children by a former marriage, Albert McCarroll, of London: Judith Getis, of Princeton, N.J. and Elizabeth Oliver, of Fredericksburg, Va.
Son of Albert M. Marckwardt & Anna Miller per m. cert.
Spouces:
Margaret Reed
Grace Adalaide McCarroll
Maybella
Evening Star - Washington D.C. - Saturday, August 23, 1975
ALBERT H. MARCKWARDT, 71, LANGUAGE AUTHORITY, DIES
Albert H. Harckwardt, 71, a former professor of English and linguistics at Princeton University and an official of several major language associations, died Wednesday while on a vacation business trip in London. He lived on Kenwood Avenue in Chevy Chase.
Marckwardt was an authority of the history and structure of the English language and was the author and editor of a number of books in those fields. A Phi Beta Kappa, he was a president of the National Council of Teachers of English, the Linguistic Society of America and the American Dialect Society. He also was a vice chairman of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Marckwardt was a member of the English faculty at the University of Michigan from 1928 to 1963, a professor from 1987 to 1963 and a director of its English Language Institute before he joined the Princeton faculty in 1963. He retired from Princeton as professor emeritus in 1972.
He also was a former chairman of the advisory panel on English in the U.S. Information Agency's teaching division, a former language development consultant to the U.S. Office of Education, an advisor to the committee of the Foreign Service Institute at the State Department.
Marckwardtwas a Fulbright lecturer in Austria in 1953 and 1954 and in Japan in 1968. He was the director of the English Language Institute in Mexico City in 1971 and last year was a senior fellow of the East-West Center in Honolulu.
He authored Introduction to the English Language, American English and Linguistics and the Teaching of English and was the former editor of Historical Outline of English Sounds and Inflections. He received his BA,MA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
He leaves his wife, Maybella D., and three children by a former marriage, Albert McCarroll, of London: Judith Getis, of Princeton, N.J. and Elizabeth Oliver, of Fredericksburg, Va.
Spouces:
Margaret Reed
Grace Adalaide McCarroll
Maybella
Evening Star - Washington D.C. - Saturday, August 23, 1975
ALBERT H. MARCKWARDT, 71, LANGUAGE AUTHORITY, DIES
Albert H. Harckwardt, 71, a former professor of English and linguistics at Princeton University and an official of several major language associations, died Wednesday while on a vacation business trip in London. He lived on Kenwood Avenue in Chevy Chase.
Marckwardt was an authority of the history and structure of the English language and was the author and editor of a number of books in those fields. A Phi Beta Kappa, he was a president of the National Council of Teachers of English, the Linguistic Society of America and the American Dialect Society. He also was a vice chairman of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Marckwardt was a member of the English faculty at the University of Michigan from 1928 to 1963, a professor from 1987 to 1963 and a director of its English Language Institute before he joined the Princeton faculty in 1963. He retired from Princeton as professor emeritus in 1972.
He also was a former chairman of the advisory panel on English in the U.S. Information Agency's teaching division, a former language development consultant to the U.S. Office of Education, an advisor to the committee of the Foreign Service Institute at the State Department.
Marckwardtwas a Fulbright lecturer in Austria in 1953 and 1954 and in Japan in 1968. He was the director of the English Language Institute in Mexico City in 1971 and last year was a senior fellow of the East-West Center in Honolulu.
He authored Introduction to the English Language, American English and Linguistics and the Teaching of English and was the former editor of Historical Outline of English Sounds and Inflections. He received his BA,MA and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
He leaves his wife, Maybella D., and three children by a former marriage, Albert McCarroll, of London: Judith Getis, of Princeton, N.J. and Elizabeth Oliver, of Fredericksburg, Va.
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