| Code | DS/UK/164 |
| Dates | 09/07/1858-21/12/1942 |
| Person Name | Boas; Franz (09/07/1858-21/12/1942); Prof. Dr. |
| Surname | Boas |
| Forenames | Franz |
| Title | Prof. Dr. |
| Activity | Professor of Geography; Anthropologist; Editor of "Science" (since 1887); lecturer at Clark University (1888-1892); chief assistant in anthropology to F.W. Putnam at the Chicago World’s Fair (1892-); Assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History, under Putnam (1896); Lecturer at Columbia University (1896-1899); Professor (1899-1842). |
| Relationships | married to Marie Krackowizer. |
| History | Studied mathematics, physics and geography at Universities of Heidelberg and Kiel; PhD Kiel University (1881); Habilitation (Berlin 1886), moved to New York in 1887. |
| Source | 'Franz Boas', URL: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Boas>. |
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