Stephen J. Herben Jr.

Stephen Joseph Herben Jr. (14 March 1897 – 22 December 1967) was an American professor of philology at Bryn Mawr College. He specialized in English and German philology, and among other places did work at the American-Scandinavian Foundation in Copenhagen and Oxford University, as well as at Rutgers, Princeton, and Stanford University. His work included assistance with the etymological work of the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary, and two articles on medieval literary descriptions of weapons and armor. The second of these articles, "Arms and Armour in Chaucer", is still considered a standard on the subject.

Herben was the son of Grace Foster Herben and Rev. Stephen Joseph Herben Sr., a Methodist missionary and minister, respectively. He married twice, to Mary Shattuck, another academic then beginning her career in psychology, from 1921 to 1929, and to Caroline Robbins, a professor of history at Bryn Mawr and the sister of Lionel Robbins, from 1932 until his death. He died at the age of 70, and has an endowed fund in his name at Bryn Mawr.