Harry Hoijer

Anthropologist, Academic

1904 – 1976

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Who was Harry Hoijer?

Harry Hoijer was a linguist and anthropologist who worked on primarily Athabaskan languages and culture. He additionally documented the Tonkawa language, which is now extinct. Hoijer's few works make up the bulk of material on this language. Hoijer was a student of Edward Sapir.

Hoijer contributed greatly to the documentation of the Southern and Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages and to the reconstruction of proto-Athabaskan. Harry Hoijer collected a large number of valuable fieldnotes on many Athabaskan languages, which are unpublished. Some of his notes on Lipan Apache and the Tonkawa language are lost.

As a note of interest, it was Hoijer who coined the term "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis".

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Born
Sep 6, 1904
Chicago
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • University of Chicago
Died
Mar 11, 1976

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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