Helge Kökeritz

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1943–44:

KÖKERITZ, HELGE KARL AUGUST.  Appointed for a comprehensive study of Shakespeare’s pronunciation on the basis of recent work in early new English phonology; tenure, twelve months from August 1, 1943.

Born August 24, 1902, in Sweden.  Education:  University of Heidelberg, 1921; University of Uppsala, M.A., 1924, Ph.D., 1932.

Docent,  1932—, University of Uppsala; Honorary Fellow of the Faculty, 1940, University of Wisconsin; Visiting Lecturer in English, 1941, State University of Iowa; Visiting Professor of English, 1941–43, University of Minnesota.

Publications:  English Writing-Course for Advanced Students, 1931; The Phonology of the Suffolk Dialect, Descriptive and Historical, 1932; Engelsk Handelskorrespondens, 1934–36; Moderna texter för översättning till främmande språk (with A. L. Charlesworth), 1935; The Place-Names of the Isle of Wight, 1941; Mather Flint on Early Eighteenth Century English Pronunciation, 1944. Articles in Studia Neophilologica, Namn och Bygd, Ortnamnssällskapets i Uppsala Årsskrift, Nassau Guardian, Korrespondens, American Speech, Modern Language Notes, Language, Proceedings of the International Shorthand Congress.