KLASS, Morton. Brooklyn, N.Y. 24.6.1927 — Washington Heights, N.Y. 28.4.2001 (when 73). U.S. Anthropologist. Born of a Jewish immigrant family, father from Lithuania and mother from London. Educated in New York, in 1945 joined U.S. Merchant Marine. Started writing fiction, but then was fascinated by Margaret Mead’s Samoan work and…
KITAGAWA, Joseph Mitsuo. Osaka 8.3.1915 — Chicago 7.10.1992. U.S. (Japanese-born) Scholar of Religion. U.S. citizen 1955. Born in a Christian Japanese family, his father, Chiyokichi Kitagawa, was episcopal priest, grew up in Japan. Studied theology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, graduated B.A. 1937. In 1941 went to the U.S.A. for…
HOPKINS, Grace Sturtevant. 14.7.1904 — Hamden, CT 12.3.2002. U.S. Student of IE Linguistics. Daughter of —> Edgar H. Sturtevant (1875–1952) and Elizabeth (Bessie) Skinner. Graduated 1924 from Vassar College. Ph.D. 1932 Yale. In 1931-62 living in New Jersey, then in Hamden, CT and Naples. Active in politics. Married Francis W.…
HONIGMAN, John Joseph. Bronx, New York 7.6.1914 — 4.8.1977. U.S. Anthropologist. Associate Professor (1951). Probably at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Married, two children Publications: “Education and Career Specialization in a West Pakistan Village of Renown”, Anthropos 55, 1960, 825-840; “The Swat Pathans”, Anthropos 56, 1961, 941-946. – Edited: Handbook of Social and Cultural…
HITCHCOCK, John Thayer. Springfield, MA 29.6.1917 — Stoughton, Wisconsin 16.1.2001. U.S. Anthropologist. Professor in Madison. Son of Arthur Cornwall Hitchcock (1871–1949) and Ruth Harriet Thayer. B.A. 1939 Amherst College. M.A. 1941 University Chicago in English Literature. After war service as a pilot in Navy Instructor in English at Amherst College, 1946-48.…
HIRSH, Marilyn. Chicago 1.1.1944 — New York City 17.10.1988. U.S. Art Historian, Illustrator and Author. Born in a Jewish family, her father owned a meat market, daughter of Eugene Hitsh and Rose Warshall.. Graduated in art 1965 from Carnegie Mellon Institute. From 1975 several years teacher of English in India.…
HILDBURGH, Walter Leo. New York 30.3.1876 — London 25.11.1955. U.S. Art Collector and Traveller. Born in a wealthy immigrant family, son of Henry Hildburgh and Lillie Cornelia Rosenblatt. Ph.D. Columbia University (diss. on electricity). In 1900 began travels in Japan, China and India. He spent some time in Sri Lanka…
HENCKEN, Hugh O’Neill. New York City 8.1.1902 — Cape Cod 31.8.1981.U.S. Archaeologist. Born to an Irish American family, son of Albert Charles Hencken (1871–1951) and Mary Creighton O’Neill (1874–1929). Studies at Princeton and Cambridge. Ph.D. 1929 Cambridge, in Archaeology. From 1932 to his retirement in 1972 Curator of European archaeology at…
HELLER, Louis George. New York City 24.6.1927 — Teaneck, NJ 2.8.1997. U.S. Linguist. The only son of Benjamin Heller and Helen Edith Morse. Ph.D. Lecturer, then Professor at the College of the City of New York. Married Alice Levy (1928–2012), two daughters and two sons. Publications: Wrote on English, general…
HAY, Stephen Northup. Philadelphia 4.10.1925 — Santa Barbara 25.3.2001. U.S. Historian. Son of Edward Northup Hay (1891–1958) and Doris Mabel Drain. Educated at Deep Springs and Haverford Colleges, 1942-1944. In 1944-46 army service. Then studies at London School of Economics, 1946-47, and Harvard. B.A. 1951 Swarthmore College, M.A. 1953 Harvard,…