George Herzog (ethnomusicologist)
| George Herzog | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 11, 1901 Budapest, Hungary |
| Died | November 4, 1983 (aged 81) Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Education |
Budapest Music Academy Hochschule für Musik Columbia University |
| Employer | Indiana University Bloomington |
| Known for | Study of Native American language, music and anthropology. |
George Herzog (* December 11 1901 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; † November 4 1983 in Indianapolis) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, musicologist, and ethnomusicologist.
Georg Herzog studied at the Budapest Music Academy from 1917-1919, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Charlottenburg. Starting in 1921, he assisted Carl Stumpf and Erich Moritz von Hornbostel in the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv. In 1925, he emigrated to the United States, where he received a postgraduate degree in anthropology from Columbia University. While there, he studied with Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict. In 1930/31 he went on a research trip to Liberia, where he recorded, on behalf of Sapir, the language and folk music of the Jabo people. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1935 (and 1947). Through field research, he wrote his doctoral thesis in 1937 A comparison of Pueblo and Pima musical styles which made him one of the fore-most authoritative scholars for American Indian music. He taught and conducted research at the University of Chicago, Yale University and Columbia University. During World War II, he worked in the US Army in Military Intelligence.
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