{"id":1714,"date":"2020-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:15:43","slug":"madeline-faith-kripke-book-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"Madeline Faith Kripke, book collector"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Madeline Faith Kripke a book collector who held one of the world’s largest collections of dictionaries died on April 25, 2020, due to complications of COVID-19.\r<\/p>

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Madeline Kripke was born on September 9, 1943, in New London, Connecticut, to mother Dorothy Karp Kripke and father Myer S. Kripke, a rabbi. Kripke’s brother was philosopher Saul Kripke, and her sister was Netta Kripke Stern. She graduated with a bachelor’s in English from Barnard College.\r<\/p>

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In fifth grade, she recalled receiving a Webster\u2019s Collegiate Dictionary from her parents, which she said “unlocked the world for me”. Kripke acquired a collection of approximately 20,000 dictionaries in her two-bedroom apartment. The oldest dictionary in her collection was a Latin dictionary published in 1502 by Ambrogio Calepino. She placed a special emphasis on collecting dictionaries regarding obscure slang. Her collection includes the only known copy of Larks of London (1840), a dictionary of slang from the London underworld. Simon Winchester said that her collection of slang dictionaries represented “the very living and breathing edge of the English language”. Jesse Sheidlower described her collection as better than that of the Library of Congress. After her death, it was unclear what would become of the collection.\r<\/p>

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After graduating from college, Kripke held several jobs, including as a welfare case worker and a teacher. She eventually became an editor and a publisher, doing copyediting and proofreading. She also worked at several bookstores, eventually becoming a book dealer.\r<\/p>

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Kripke was a founding member of the Dictionary Society of North America and attended every meeting for nearly forty years. In 2015 she was one of six Fellows elected to the Society, its highest honor, along with Anatoly Liberman and John Simpson. She received their Richard W. Bailey Award for Distinguished Service to Lexicography and Lexicology in 2017.\r<\/p>

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Madeline Faith Kripke a book collector who held one of the world’s largest collections of dictionaries died on April 25, 2020, due to complications of COVID-19. Madeline Kripke was born on September 9, 1943, in New London, Connecticut, to mother Dorothy Karp Kripke and father Myer S. Kripke, a rabbi. 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