Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941

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Linguist: received a Social Science Research Fellowship for a field trip to Mexico, 1930; studied at Yale University with Edward Sapir, 1931-1936; lecturer on anthropology at Yale, 1937-1938; author of numerous articles on languages, linguistics, science and religion.

From the description of Benjamin Lee Whorf papers, 1914-1957 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145078609 From the description of Benjamin Lee Whorf papers, 1898-1957 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702182476

Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist: born 1897, received a Social Science Research Fellowship for a field trip to Mexico, 1930; studied at Yale University with Edward Sapir, 1931-1936; lecturer on anthropology at Yale, 1937-1938; author of numerous articles on languages, linguistics, science and religion, died 1941.

Benjamin Lee Whorf had a brief but important career as a pioneering scholar of the Nahuatl, Maya, and Hopi languages and as a theoretician about the influence of language on thought and perception. Researchers should consult Language, Thought, and Reality for a biographical sketch and bibliography by John B. Carroll,¹ but these are some principal events and periods in his life:

1897 born in Winthrop, Massachusetts 1918 received the B.S. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1919 1941 employed as a fire prevention engineer by the Hartford Fire Insurance Company 1920 married Celia Inez Peckham [1924 1928] studied Hebrew 1925 wrote "Why I Have Discarded Evolution" 1928 read "Aztec Linguistics" and "An Aztec Account of the Period of the Toltec Decline" at the Twenty-Third International Congress of Americanists 1930 took a field trip to Mexico, supported by the Social Science Research Council 1931 began studies with Edward Sapir at Yale University 1932 began his linguistic analysis of Hopi 1933 published The Phonetic Basis of Certain Characters in Maya Writing 1936 published his first article on Hopi, "The punctual and segmentative aspects of Hopi," in Language 1937 1938 was a Lecturer in Anthropology at Yale 1940 1941 published three articles for a non-professional audience in Technology Review 1941 died on July 26 after some months' illness

¹Benjamin Lee Whorf, Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf, Comp. John B. Carroll, (Cambridge, Mass.: The M. I. T. Press, 1956).

From the guide to the Benjamin Lee Whorf papers, 1898-1971, (Manuscripts and Archives)

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