Eduard Prokosch

In November 1917 he appeared before a formal investigation to answer the charges lodged by a U.S. Marshall that when asked to sign a wartime food conservation card he had refused, saying that it looked like an advertising scheme, and that "[d]uring the whole conversation he seemed rather angry and gave the impression that he did not regard the plan with much favor".

Later in the year, he was offered a position at Bryn Mawr College, remaining there until 1928 and serving concurrently as head of the department of German at New York University from 1927 to 1929.

Prokosch's linguistic research involved the systematic reconstruction of the evolution of the sounds and grammatical forms of Germanic languages from their Indo-European roots.

At the invitation of the University of Chicago Press, he wrote a similar textbook on Russian, using the same method while avoiding the more complicated features of declensions and verb forms.

The Cyrillic script proved difficult for the typesetters, and so (he wrote) "The typographical side of the book should be judged with some leniency, since the typesetting was done by the author himself, for whom this was the first venture into Guttenberg's black art.

His school report on graduation from the Eger gymnasium shows that he was deemed "excellent" in Greek, Latin and German and "commendable" in the Czech language.

At the University of Chicago he studied Spanish, Old and Middle High German, Sanskrit, Old Norse, Lithuanian, and medieval French literature among other subjects.