Edward Sapir’s coursework in linguistics and anthropology

Appendix I.Life dates, highest degree, source and year of highest degree for Sapir’s teachers at Columbia University*

*[The source of these professors’ academic credentials are the Columbia University annual catalogs for the years 1904 through 1907. Most probably, Boas’ degree was a ‘Dr. rer. nat.’, as his dissertation on Beiträge zur Erkenntnis der Farbe des Wassers (published in his home town, Minden: Korber & Freytag, 1881) was in natural sciences, not the arts (where the regular doctorate would have been a ‘Dr. phil.’).

Franz Boas

(1858–1942), Ph.D., Kiel 1881

William Henry Carpenter

(1853–1936), Ph.D., Freiburg 1881

Livingston Farrand

(1867–1939), M.D., Columbia 1891

John Laurence Gerig

(1878–1957), Ph.D., Nebraska 1902

William Addison Hervey

(1870–1918), A.M., Columbia 1894 (Leipzig student 1896)

A(braham) V(alentine) Williams Jackson

(1862–1937), Ph.D., Columbia 1886 (LL.D. 1904)

Berthold Laufer

(1874–1934), Ph.D., Leipzig 1897

Arthur F(rank) J(oseph) Remy

(1871–1954), Ph.D., Columbia 1901

Marshall H(oward) Saville

(1867–1935), special student at Harvard’s Peabody Museum 1889–1893

Rudolf Tambo

, Ph.D., Columbia 1901 (Leipzig student 1899–1900)

Calvin Thomas

(1854–1919), A.M., Michigan 1877 (Berlin student 1891–1893)

Abraham Yohannan

(1853–1925), Ph.D., Columbia 1902

Appendix II.Textbooks used in language courses taken by Sapir

D’Arbois de Jubainville, Henri

(1827–1910). 1903 Eléments de la grammaire celtique. Paris: A. Fontemoing.

Holthausen, Ferdinand

(1860–1956). 1899 Alt sächsisches Elementarbuch. Heidelberg: C. Winter.

Kahle, Bernhard

(1861–1910). 1896 Altisländisches Elementarbuch. Heidelberg: C. Winter.

Strachan, John

(1862–1907). 1901 Select Old Irish Glosses. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.

Streitberg, Wilhelm August

(1864–1925). 1910 Gotisches Elementarbuch. 3rd ed. Heidelberg: C. Winter.

Uhland, Ludwig

(1787–1862). 1844 Alte hoch- und niederdeutsche Volkslieder. Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta.

Uhlenbeck, Christianus Cornelis

(1866–1951). 1900 Kurzgefasstes etymologisches Wörterbuch der gotischen Sprache. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: J. Muller. (1st ed. 1896.)

Windisch, Ernst

(1844–1918). 1882 Compendium of Irish Grammar: Dublin: M. Gill & Sons.