Franz Boas
1858 to 1942
17 documented presences
15 places
Quo Fuit places 17 dated presences for Franz Boas across 15 places, from 1858 to 1942. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Franz Boas was documented, and when
9 July 1858exact date
Mindenattested
“Franz Boas was born on July 9, 1858, in Minden, Westphalia, the son of Sophie Meyer and Meier Boas.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1879year
University of Kielattested
“In 1879, he hoped to transfer to Berlin University to study physics under Hermann von Helmholtz, but ended up transferring to the University of Kiel instead due to family reasons.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1879year
Berlin Universityattested
“In 1879, he hoped to transfer to Berlin University to study physics under Hermann von Helmholtz, but ended up transferring to the University of Kiel instead due to family reasons.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1879year
Berlinattested
“In 1879, he hoped to transfer to Berlin University to study physics under Hermann von Helmholtz, but ended up transferring to the University of Kiel instead due to family reasons.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1885year
Ethnological Museum of Berlinattested
“In 1885, he went to work with physical anthropologist Rudolf Virchow and ethnologist Adolf Bastian at the Royal Ethnological Museum in Berlin.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1888year
Clark Universityattested
“Aside from his editorial work at Science, in 1888 Boas secured an appointment as docent in anthropology at Clark University in Massachusetts.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1896 to 1899period
Columbia Universityattested
“Boas was appointed a lecturer in physical anthropology at Columbia University in 1896, and promoted to professor of anthropology in 1899.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1899 to 1923period
University of Pennsylvaniaattested
“Boas also trained a number of other students who were influential in the development of academic anthropology: Frank Speck (1908) who trained with Boas but received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and immediately proceeded to…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1899 to 1923period
University of Chicagoattested
“Boas also trained a number of other students who were influential in the development of academic anthropology: Frank Speck (1908) who trained with Boas but received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and immediately proceeded to…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1899 to 1923period
New School for Social Researchattested
“Boas also trained a number of other students who were influential in the development of academic anthropology: Frank Speck (1908) who trained with Boas but received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and immediately proceeded to…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1899 to 1923period
Northwestern Universityattested
“Boas also trained a number of other students who were influential in the development of academic anthropology: Frank Speck (1908) who trained with Boas but received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and immediately proceeded to…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1900 to 1950period
Harvard Universityattested
“Swanton (who studied with Boas at Columbia for two years before receiving his doctorate from Harvard in 1900), Paul Radin (1911), Ruth Benedict (1923), Gladys Reichard (1925) who had begun teaching at Barnard College in 1921 and was late…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1900 to 1950period
Barnard Collegeattested
“Swanton (who studied with Boas at Columbia for two years before receiving his doctorate from Harvard in 1900), Paul Radin (1911), Ruth Benedict (1923), Gladys Reichard (1925) who had begun teaching at Barnard College in 1921 and was late…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1901 to 1928period
Columbia Universityattested
“His students at Columbia also included Mexican anthropologist Manuel Gamio, who earned his Master of Arts degree after studying with Boas from 1909 to 1911, and became the founding director of Mexico's Bureau of Anthropology in 1917; Cla…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1901 to 1928period
1901 to 1928period
21 December 1942exact date
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Places Franz Boas is documented in
Columbia University3 presences · 1896 to 1942Berlin1 presence · 1879Brazil1 presence · 1901Harvard University1 presence · 1900University of Chicago1 presence · 1899University of Pennsylvania1 presence · 1899
Barnard College1 presence · 1900
Berlin University1 presence · 1879
Clark University1 presence · 1888
Ethnological Museum of Berlin1 presence · 1885
Minden1 presence · 1858
New Mexico1 presence · 1901
Other places tied to Franz Boas in the record
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1883year
Baffin Islandmentioned
“In 1883, encouraged by Theobald Fischer, Boas went to Baffin Island to conduct geographic research on the impact of the physical environment on native Inuit migrations.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1888year
University of Pennsylvaniamentioned
“It is a response to a paper presented in 1888 by Daniel Garrison Brinton, at the time a professor of American linguistics and archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1892 to 1893period
Harvard Universitymentioned
“Anthropologist Frederic Ward Putnam, director and curator of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, who had been appointed as head of the Department of Ethnology and Archeology for the Chicago Fair in 1892, chose Boas as his first ass…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1892 to 1893period
Chicagomentioned
“Anthropologist Frederic Ward Putnam, director and curator of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, who had been appointed as head of the Department of Ethnology and Archeology for the Chicago Fair in 1892, chose Boas as his first ass…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1892 to 1893period
Americasmentioned
“Anthropologist Frederic Ward Putnam, director and curator of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, who had been appointed as head of the Department of Ethnology and Archeology for the Chicago Fair in 1892, chose Boas as his first ass…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1897year
Bering Straitmentioned
“In 1897, he organized the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, a five-year-long field-study of the nations of the Pacific Northwest, whose ancestors had migrated across the Bering Strait from Siberia.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1897year
New Yorkmentioned
“Peary obliged and brought six Inuit to New York in 1897 who lived in the basement of the American Museum of Natural History.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1901year
University of California, Berkeleymentioned
“Kroeber (1901), who, along with fellow Boas student Robert Lowie (1908), started the anthropology program at the University of California, Berkeley.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1902year
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnologymentioned
“Members of the American Anthropological Association (among whom Boas was a founding member in 1902), meeting at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard (with which Morley, Lothrop, and Spinden were affiliated), voted b…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1902year
Harvard Universitymentioned
“Members of the American Anthropological Association (among whom Boas was a founding member in 1902), meeting at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard (with which Morley, Lothrop, and Spinden were affiliated), voted b…”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1904year
Philippinesmentioned
“He also trained William Jones (1904), one of the first Native American Indian anthropologists (Meskwaki) who was killed while conducting research in the Philippines in 1909, and Albert B.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1906year
Atlanta Universitymentioned
“An early example of this concern is evident in his 1906 commencement address to Atlanta University, at the invitation of W.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1912year
Berlinmentioned
“In a speech to anthropologists in Berlin in 1912, Boas argued that at best such statistics could only raise biological questions, and not answer them.”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
1916year
New Yorkmentioned
“In 1916, Boas wrote a letter to The New York Times which was published under the headline, "Why German-Americans Blame America".”
source: Wikipedia: Franz Boas
4 March 1934exact date
Documented at the same place, the same year
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