Angulo, Jaime de

Born Jan. 29, 1887 in Paris, France, of Spanish expatriate parents; came to US, 1905; studied medicine at Cooper Union Medical School, and in 1908 transferred to Johns Hopkins; conducted research at Stanford Univ, where his interests turned to anthropology and linguistics, and he studied Pit River (Achomawi) Indians of Northern CA; wrote two novels, Don Bartolomeo (1922) and The Reata (late 1920s), as well as some children's stories and poetry; also wrote a book about his first linguistic field trip to the Achomawi Indian tribe, Indians in overalls (1950); hired in 1927 by the Committee on Research in Native American Languages to study the languages of Northern CA; corresponded with Ezra Pound, 1948-50; was diagnosed with cancer in 1948 and died Oct. 1950.

From the description of Papers, ca. 1890-1982. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38060760

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