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Frank T. Siebert (March 2, 1912-January 23, 1998, in Bangor, Maine) was an American hospital pathologist, but he is best known for his work in linguistics, particularly as a specialist on Algonquian languages.

Education
At the University of Pennsylvania, Frank Speck, an anthropologist specializing in the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples, nurtured Siebert’s special interest in Penobscot.

Personal life
marriages

Marion Paterson

Penobscot
Madeline Tomah Shay (last speaker)

Book collecting
When, as an unpaid intern in 1939, he saw a copy of the rare 1806 second edition of David Zeisberger's Delaware Indian and English Spelling Book offered for (he recalled later) $6.50, he sold blood to be able to buy it.

Books
Penobscot-English Dictionary

Essays and articles
"The Original Home of the Proto-Algonquian People"