About Joanna Baker
Lived 1862 – 1935 (aged 72–73). Joanna Baker was an American academic.
Joanna Baker (February 14, 1862 – 1935) was an American linguist and child prodigy, holding her first college teaching job at the age of 16 and publishing her first book of translations from the Greek at the age of 18. For more than a quarter of a century, she was professor of ancient languages at Simpson College in Iowa, and she also taught at Lake Erie College in Ohio.
Biography Baker was born in New Rochelle, Illinois, one of six children of Mary Catherine (Ridley) Baker and Orlando Harrison Baker, who were both teachers and linguists.
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American linguist and child prodigy
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Joanna Baker was born on 14 February 1862 in Rochelle.
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Joanna Baker died in 1935 in Delaware.
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Joanna Baker was an academic.
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