Edgar C. Polomé
Edgar Ghislain Charles Polomé (July 31, 1920 – March 11, 2000) was a Belgian-American philologist and religious studies scholar. He specialized in Germanic and Indo-European studies and was active at the University of Texas at Austin for much of his career.
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| Born | July 31, 1920 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels, Belgium |
| Died | March 11, 2000 (aged 79) Houston, Texas, United States |
| Nationality | Belgian, American |
| Spouses | Julia Josephine Schwindt
(m. 1944; died 1975)Barbara Elizabeth Baker Harris
(m. 1980; div. 1990)Sharon Looper Rankin
(m. 1991) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Doctoral advisor | Adolphe Van Loey |
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| Notable works | Essays on Germanic Religion (1989) |
Holding a PhD in Germanic philology from the Free University of Brussels, Polomé was professor and head of the Department of Linguistics at the Official University of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi in the late 1950s and conducted research on Bantu languages. He subsequently served as a professor of comparative linguistics and religions at the University of Texas at Austin from 1962 to 1997. While a professor at Austin, Polomé co-founded the Journal of Indo-European Studies, of which he was an editor for many years.
Polomé was known as a specialist on Indo-European and Germanic religion. He was an author and editor of numerous scholarly publications, and the teacher of several students who subsequently became prominent scholars in his fields of study.