Birthdate: January 26, 1884
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Lębork
Died: February 4, 1939
Edward Sapir was a prominent American anthropologist-linguist who made significant contributions to the field of linguistics in the United States. He studied Germanic linguistics under Franz Boas at Columbia University and collaborated with Alfred Kroeber on Native American languages. Sapir’s work at the Geological Survey of Canada established him as a leading linguist in North America. He went on to hold professorships at the University of Chicago and Yale, where he concentrated on the connections between language and culture, phonology, and the classification of Indigenous languages in the Americas.
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