Teeter, Karl V., 1929-....

Karl van Duyn Teeter (1929-2007) was an American linguist who specialized in endangered Algic and Algonquian languages, most notably Wiyot and Maliseet-Passamaquoddy (also known as Malecite-Passamaquoddy).

Born to Charles Edwin Teeter, Jr. (Harvard College Class of 1927) and Lura May Shaffner on March 2, 1929, Teeter was raised in Lexington, Massachusetts. He married Anita Maria Bonacorsi Teeter (Radcliffe AB 1951, Harvard EdM 1967, Ed 1978) in 1951; together they had four daughters.

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