Werner, Oswald.

Oswald Werner was born on February 26, 1928, the son of Dr. Gyula and Bella (Toth) at Rimavska Soboat, in the former Czechoslovakia. Werner attended the Technische Hochschule of Stuttgart, Germany between 1946 and 1950, where he took the equivalent of a bachelor of science degree in Applied Physics. Werner joined the faculty of Northwestern in 1963 and remained until his retirement in 1998. His research focused on linguistics as well as cultural anthropology, particularly as they related to the Navajo.

After immigrating to the United States, Werner studied journalism at Syracuse University from 1954 to 1955. He took coursework in anthropology, also at Syracuse, beginning in 1958 and received a master of arts degree in that field in 1960. His thesis related to ethnographic photography. Werner then went to Indiana University where he completed his dissertation, “A Typological Comparison of Four Trader Navajo Speakers,” and took a doctoral degree in anthropology and linguistics in 1963.

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