Henry Otley Beyer
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Henry Otley Beyer July 13, 1883 Edgewood, Iowa, U.S |
| Died | December 31, 1966 (aged 83) Manila, Philippines |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
| Known for | Founding member of the Anthropology department at the University of the Philippines in 1914. Department head from 1925 until retirement in 1954. Known as the Father of Philippine Anthropology. |
Henry Otley Beyer (July 13, 1883 – December 31, 1966) was an American anthropologist, who spent most of his adult life in the Philippines teaching Philippine indigenous culture. He is known as the Father of Philippine Anthropology.
Beyer was born in Edgewood, Iowa to a pioneer family of Bavarian origin and developed an interest in the Philippines when he visited the Philippine exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exhibition in St Louis, Missouri in 1904.
After graduating from Iowa State University then earning a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Denver the following year, he volunteered to teach in the Philippines. His first years in the Philippines were spent as a teacher in the Cordillera Mountains on Luzon island, home of the Ifugao people. He later married Lingayu Gambuk, the daughter of an Ifugao village chief of Amganad, Banaue. Their son William born in 1918 was their only child. Although in a Catholic country, Beyer remained a Protestant throughout his life.
He pursued postgraduate anthropological studies at Harvard University. He was appointed ethnologist in the Philippine Bureau of Science and part-time head of the Philippine Museum. He became sole instructor in anthropology at the University of the Philippines in 1914. In 1925, he became the head of the university's department of anthropology and its first professor. By that time, the anthropology department and its museum that Beyer himself built already occupied the entire second floor of Rizal Hall which housed the university's College of Liberal Arts until 1949. Beyer remained head of the department until his official retirement from the University of the Philippines in 1954 after forty years of full-time teaching.
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