Victor Egon Hanzeli, Sr. (1925 – April 23, 1991)[1] was an American linguist and professor of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Washington.
[1] His 1961 dissertation is titled Early descriptions by French missionaries of Algonquian and Iroquoian languages: A study of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century practice in linguistics.
He also served as Director of the Washington Foreign Language Program[1] and coauthored a report to the Ford Foundation on it.
[1] Hanzeli was one of only a few academics (the most notable exception being James Axtell) to study role of linguistics in the activities of Catholic and Protestant missionaries among Native American populations.
They had five children: Victor Jr., of Marysville, Washington; Beatrice, of Seattle; Tina Hodgins, of Olympia; Dennis, of Brier; and Gabriel, of Kent.