He earned his PhD in Anthropology there in 1909 under the mentorship of Franz Boas. Sapir showed a talent for academics and languages as a youth, and won a prestigious Pulitzer scholarship at the age of 14, eventually using it to attend Columbia University in 1901. Sapir and his family were of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry, and immigrated to the United States in 1890 - eventually settling in New York City where his family survived periods of economic desperation. Sapir was a visionary in the study of anthropology, and a pioneer in efforts to theorize about human linguistic and cultural expression. Sapir was a renowned linguistic and cultural anthropologist, and the first chief ethnologist for the Geological Survey of Canada ’s Department of Anthropology from 1910 to 1925, where he managed a team of researchers who undertook extensive surveys of Indigenous languages across the country.
Edward Sapir, anthropologist, linguist, essayist (born 26 January 1884 in Lauenburg, Germany died 4 February 1939 in New Haven, Connecticut).
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