![]() in anthropology in 1909, with a dissertation on the Takelma language of southwestern Oregon. In the next two years he took up projects studying the Wishram and Takelma languages. However, Sapir’s linguistic interests proved to be much broader. In 1905, he received his M.A., also in German. At Columbia he studied German philology and Indo-European linguistics. He was an extremely bright young man, and many professors saw great potential in him. Sapir entered Columbia University in 1901, on a Pulitzer scholarship he had won three years earlier. After the death of his younger brother Max, and numerous problems, Sapir’s parents divorced in 1910. When he was six years old his family immigrated to the United States, and eventually settled on the Lower East Side of New York City. ![]() His parents, Jacob David and Eva Seagal Sapir spoke Yiddish amongst themselves, so Edward learned both German and the language of his parents. Edward Sapir was born on Januin Lauenburg, Prussia, (now Lębork in Poland) to an orthodox Jewish family of Lithuanian origins. ![]()
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