institutions in linguistics, and for the large numbers of students that he taught and mentored, many of whom have made major contributions to scholarship. Personal life Lehmann married Ruth Preston Miller on October 12, 1940, whom he met while studying at the University of Wisconsin. A specialist in Celtic linguistics and Old English, Ruth was Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Winfred and Ruth had two children, Terry Jon and Sandra Jean. Winfred and Ruth were both environmentalists an animal-lovers. They donated of land in the northwest of Travis County, Texas to The Nature Conservancy to create the Ruth Lehmann Memorial Tract. The family inhabited a spacious house on Lake Travis, where they cared for rescued animals. Aside from linguistics and the environment, Lehmann's great passion was literature, particularly early Germanic literature and the novels of his friend Raja Rao and James Joyce. He was also a skilled pianist. Lehmann was a close friend of John Archibald Wheeler, with whom he shared an interest for literature. Despite his wide circle of friends, Lehmann was nevertheless a very private man. Selected works (With Alfred Senn) A Word Index to Wolfram's "Parzival,", University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1938 (With Roe-Merrill S. Heffner) A Word-Index to the Poems of Walther von der Vogelweide, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1940 (With Lloyd Faust) A Grammar of Formal Written Japanese, Harvard University Press, 1951 Proto-Indo-European Phonology, University of Texas Press and Linguistic Society of America, (1952) The Alliteration of Old Saxon Poetry, Aschehoug, (1953) (With J. L. Dillard) The Alliterations of the Edda, University of Texas, 1954 The Development of Germanic Verse Form, University of Texas Press and Linguistic Society of America, 1956 (With Helmut Rheder and George Schulz-Behrend) Active German, Dryden, 1958, 2nd edition, including revised Handbook, records, and tapes, published as Active German Revised, Holt, 1962. (With Takemitsu Tabusa) The Alliterations of the Beowulf, Department of Germanic Languages, University of Texas, 1958 (With Helmut Rehder, L. Shaw, and S. N. Werbow) Review and Progress in German, Holt, 1959 (With Virginia F. Dailey) The Alliterations of the Christ, Guthlac, Elene, Juliana, Fates of the Apostles, and Dream of the Rood, Department of Germanic Languages, University of Texas, 1960. Historical Linguistics: An Introduction, Holt, 1962, 2nd edition 1973, 3rd edition, 1992 Exercises to Accompany Historical Linguistics: An Introduction, Holt, 1962, 2nd edition, 1973. (With Helmut Rehder and Hans Beyer) Spectrum: Modern German Thought in Science,