Tobias Witmer
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Tobias Witmer (October 8, 1816 - August 14, 1897) was an American inventor, spelling reformer, surveyor, civil engineer, and a notable poet in the Pennsylvania Dutch language. Witmer's Pennsylvania German poetry was anthologized by Abraham R. Horne and Edward H. Rauch. He was born in Niagara Falls, New York to a family from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and died in Williamsville, New York.[1]
Bibliography
[edit]- T. Witmer's patent musical scale, shewing the transpositions of the scale by sharps and flats for the use of singing school teachers (1857)
- A system of phonetic spelling adapted to English and German
- Witmer's phonetic orthography (1880)
- Witmer'z fonografik charts (1881)
References
[edit]- ^ "Twin Witmer brothers led different but distinguished lives." Niagara Gazette, December 8, 2018