George T. Flom

George Tobias Flam (April 12, 1871 - January 4, 1960) was an American professor of linguistics and the author of numerous reference books. George Tobias Flum was born in Utica, Dane County, Wisconsin. His grandfather immigrated to the USA from Aurland to Sogn og Furan in Norway in the early 1840s. Flom studied at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 1889 to 1893, received a master's degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1894, and studied in Copenhagen and Leipzig from 1898 to 1899. He received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1900 for a thesis on the Scandinavian influence on the Scottish language.