Jaime de Angulo
Novelist, Author
1887 – 1950
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Who was Jaime de Angulo?
Jaime de Angulo was a linguist, novelist, and ethnomusicologist in the western United States. He was born in Paris of Spanish parents. He came to America in 1905 to become a cowboy, and eventually arrived in San Francisco on the eve of the great 1906 earthquake. He lived a picaresque life including stints as a cowboy, medical doctor and psychologist. He survived a suicide attempt after cutting his throat from ear to ear in Berkeley. He became a linguist who contributed to the knowledge of certain Northern California Indian languages, as well as some in Mexico.
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- Born
- 1887
Paris - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Johns Hopkins University
- Died
- 1950
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on July 23, 2013
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