FRANZ BOAZ' ' BIOGRAPHY
"Frank Boaz was born on July 9, 1858 at Minden, Germany. He studied at Heidelberg and Bonn Universities before going to Kiel, where, at the age of 23, he was awarded the Degree of Philosophy. ... But it was his minor, geography, that most influenced his later career, ... They led him logically ... to the new discipline of anthropology.
He studied Eskimos and Indians of Northwest Pacific Coast of North America. He worked at Berlin Ethnological Museum, Science (NY), Clark University, World Columbian University, Field Museum (Chicago), American Museum of Natural History (NY), and Columbia University.
Publications included the Mind of the Primitive Man, Primitive Art, Anthropology and Modern Life, and Race, Language, and Culture. (Herskovits, 1962)
