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Edward Sapir (/ s ə ˈ p ɪər /; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States.
Edward Sapir, one of the foremost American linguists and anthropologists, known for his contributions to the study of North American Indian languages. His publications included Language (1921) and a collection of essays, Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture, and Personality (1949).
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Edward Sapir. Born in Germany, Edward Sapir was brought to the United States in 1889 at the age of five. As a student at Columbia, where he worked with Franz Boas, he received a Masters in Germanics and a PhD (1909) on the Takelma language, spoken in Oregon.
Jun 27, 2018 · Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was one of the founders of modern linguistic anthropology, a main contributor to the development of formal descriptive linguistics, a leading figure in cultural anthropology, and a chief stimulator of studies in the relations between personality and culture.
Jan 11, 2024 · Edward Sapir (b. 1884–d. 1939) is one of the most important figures in the history of American linguistics and anthropology before the Second World War. Both disciplines would likely be drastically different today had Sapir’s influence not been felt.
Edward Sapir was born in Lauenburg, Western Pomerania, now Lebork, Poland. He came from a family of Lithuanian Jews who emigrated first to England and then to the United States by 1889, finally coming to rest five years later on the Lower East side of New York City, when Sapir was ten.
EDWARD SAPIR. January 26, 1884-February 4, 1939. BY REGNA DARNELL AND JUDITH T. IRVINE. AMONG THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS trained by Franz Boas in the early decades of the twentieth century Edward Sapir alone was regularly acknowledged by his peers as a genius.
