Joseph Oxenhorn

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Who is Joseph Oxenhorn?

Joseph Oxenhorn was an American educator and prolific textbook author. After attending Brooklyn College and receiving a master's degree from Columbia University, he became a teacher and eventually a principal in the New York City school system. Oxenhorn stayed in the city's education system for over 30 years, finally retiring in 1971. He is noted for having authored 18 science textbooks. His daughter is the noted political theorist and translator Mera J. Flaumenhaft and his son is the Harvard scholar and author Harvey Oxenhorn.

He died of prostate cancer in 1989.

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  • Columbia University

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on July 23, 2013

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