Charles Robert Sleeth
A.B., West Virginia University, 1933, M.A., 1934B.A., University of Oxford, 1936, Diploma, 1937
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton Univeristy, 1941
Charles Sleeth was born in Barrackville, West Virginia. He studied Old English and German at West Virginia University, served as president of Delta Phi Alpha, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
At Oxford, Sleeth majored in Old and Middle English and went on to careers in teaching (at Greensboro College, University of Oklahoma, Princeton University, and Brooklyn College) and editing (at the Merriam-Webster Company, where he specialized in etymology).
His published works include a book, Studies in Christ and Satan, an Anglo-Saxon poem of some 730 lines, and a number of articles, mostly on Old and Middle English topics.