Henry Allan Gleason

Who was Henry Allan Gleason?

Henry Allan 'Al' Gleason, Jr. was a linguist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He taught at the university for many years and retired in the 1980s.

Gleason began studying at Hartford Seminary in 1938 and received his PhD in 1946.

His text "Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics" was positively reviewed in Language. The review described the book as a suitable update to Leonard Bloomfield's well-known text Language

Gleason was a member of the American Bible Society, and a pastor in Fancy Gap, Virginia.

His father was the botanist Henry Gleason, and mathematician Andrew Gleason was his brother.