George T. Flom [SEP] place of death
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign contains the former personal library of Flom. It consisted largely of collections of Danish, Swedish, Old Norse, Icelandic, Faroese, and Norwegian language, literature, and culture.
Selected bibliography.
- "Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch" (1900)
- "Chapters on Scandinavian Immigration to Iowa" (1906)
- "A History of the Scandinavian Studies in American Universities, Together with a Bibliography" (1907)
- "A History of Norwegian Immigration to
George T. Flom
George Tobias Flom (April 12, 1871 – January 4, 1960) was an American professor of linguistics and author of numerous reference books.
Background.
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 at the beginning of the 1840s. Flom studied at the University of Wisconsin in Madison from 1889 to 1893, received his master's degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1894, and