Charles Fritz Juengling

Charles Fritz Juengling, Ph.D., AG, is a linguistic phonologist and language historian known for his contributions to academia and scholarly research.
Juengling speaks English, German, Dutch and Norwegian and has competence in Medieval Latin. Other courses of study have included Old, Middle, and Early Modern English, Old and Middle High German, Old Norse (Old Icelandic), Gothic, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, history of the English, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages, Latin and Greek philology, Latin paleography, and Middle English paleography. Juengling's language proficiency has enabled him to hold posts at Sprague High School in Salem, Oregon, as well as Willamette University and teaching courses at genealogical seminars.
In 1999, Juengling authored the book The Origins of the Southern Hemisphere Accents of English. That same year, Juengling's work was included in two German textbooks by Ray Wakefield (Beginning German I and Beginning German II) and as of early 2014 works for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the team leader for the Scandinavian research department.
Personal
Juengling is married to Holly Juengling (née Nelson). Together they have four children: Konrad, Kurt, Gerrit and Erika. Through his wife Holly he is the brother-in-law of Dr. Zachary Nelson.
He is the nephew of genealogist and author Sybil Gibson Higley through his mother.
Education
In 1999 Juengling received a PhD from the University of Minnesota in Germanic Philology with minors in both English and Linguistics. His adviser for the doctoral program was Anatoly Liberman. Juengling had previously earned his Masters in Germanic Philology from the same school.
For his Bachelors programs, his first BA from Western Oregon University was in Secondary Education with Honors along with his second BA in International Studies with a German Emphasis with Honors.
In literature
Juengling's work has been used in etymology, linguistic and word origin journals, including the journals:
*Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
*Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America
*Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa
*Willamette Valley Voices
Juengling's work has also been referenced in a number of books, including:
*A Bibliography of English Etymology, Volumes 1-2 by Anatoly Liberman, Ari Hoptman, Nathan E. Carlson
*Do You Want to Come With?: A Cross-dialectal, Multi-field, Variationist Investigation of with as Particle Selected by Motion Verbs in the Minnesota Dialect of English by John M. Spartz
*Focus on the USA edited by Edgar W. Schneider
*Foreign Language Program Articulation: Current Practice and Future Prospects by Carolyn Gascoigne Lally
*Word Origins...And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone by Anatoly Liberman

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