George T. Flom

George Tobias Flom
Born	April 12, 1871 Utica, Wisconsin
Died	January 4, 1960(1960-01-04) (aged 88) Urbana, Illinois
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin-Madison (1893) Vanderbilt University (1894) Columbia University (1900)

George T. Flom (April 12, 1871 – January 4, 1960) was an American professor of linguistics and author of numerous reference books.

George Tobias Flom was born in Utica, Dane County, Wisconsin. His grandfather had immigrated to the U.S. from Aurland in Sogn og Fjordane in Norway during the beginning of the 1840s. Flom studied at the University of Wisconsin in Madison from 1889 to 1893, took the MA degree at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1894 and had studied in Copenhagen and Leipzig, 1898-99. He received his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1900 for a thesis on the Nordic influence on the Scots language.

Dr. Flom was a professor of Scandinavian languages and literature at the University of Iowa (1900–1909) and at the University of Illinois (1909–1927). In 1911 he was an organizer of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study and served as editor of that society’s journal. He was also an associate editor of the Journal of English and Germanic Philology. He was a linguist and a member of the American Philological Society. In 1936, he was the president of the Linguistic Society of America. His areas of expertise included Scandinavian paleography and philology, Norse literature and comparative linguistics relating to English, German and the Scandinavian languages.