Editing Leonard Bloomfield (section)

==Career==
Bloomfield was instructor in [[German language|German]] at the [[University of Cincinnati]], 1909–1910; Instructor in German at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]], 1910–1913; promoted to assistant professor of Comparative Philology and German, also University of Illinois, 1913–1921; Professor of German and Linguistics at the [[Ohio State University]], 1921–1927; Professor of Germanic Philology at the [[University of Chicago]], 1927–1940; [[Sterling Professor]] of Linguistics at [[Yale University]], 1940–1949. During the summer of 1925 Bloomfield worked as Assistant Ethnologist with the [[Geological Survey of Canada]] in the Canadian Department of Mines, undertaking [[Field work|linguistic field work]] on [[Plains Cree language|Plains Cree]]; this position was arranged by [[Edward Sapir]], who was then Chief of the Division of Anthropology,  Victoria Museum, [[Geological Survey of Canada]], Canadian Department of Mines.<ref>Bloch, Bernard, 1949, p. 88</ref><ref>Hockett, Charles, 1987, p. 40</ref> In May 1946, he suffered a debilitating stroke, which ended his career.<ref>Born, Renate (2005), 'Bloomfield, Leonard', in Strazny, Philip (ed.), "Encyclopedia of Linguistics", New York: Fitzroy Dearborn</ref>

Bloomfield was one of the founding members of the [[Linguistic Society of America]]. In 1924, along with George M. Bolling (Ohio State University) and [[Edgar H. Sturtevant|Edgar Sturtevant]] (Yale University) he formed a committee to organize the creation of the Society, and drafted the call for the Society's foundation.<ref>Anonymous, 1925</ref><ref>Hall, Robert, 1990, p. 27</ref> He contributed the lead article to the inaugural issue of the Society's journal [[Language (journal)|''Language'']],<ref name="Bloomfield, Leonard, 1925">Bloomfield, Leonard, 1925</ref> and was President of the Society in 1935.<ref>Hockett, Charles, 1970, 323</ref> He taught in the Society's summer [[Linguistic Society of America#Linguistic Institutes|Linguistic Institute]] in 1938–1941, with the 1938–1940 Institutes being held in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], and the 1941 Institute in [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]].<ref>Bloch lists only 1938–40, but Hall lists 1938–1941; Bloch, Bernard, 1949, 88; Hall, Robert, 1990, p. 52</ref> Bloomfield was also a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Leonard+Bloomfield&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-04-18 |website=search.amphilsoc.org |archive-date=2023-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418162543/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Leonard+Bloomfield&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |url-status=live }}</ref>