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3 unusual facts about Edgar H. Sturtevant


Albrecht Goetze

It was through the initiative of Edgar H. Sturtevant that Goetze was invited to Yale University in 1934, a move that was to prove momentous for the advancement of Assyrology and Hittology at Yale.

Edgar H. Sturtevant

Besides research on Native American languages and field work on the Modern American English dialects, he is the father of the Indo-Hittite hypothesis, first formulated in 1926, based on his seminal work establishing the Indo-European character of Hittite (and the related Anatolian languages), with Hittite exhibiting more archaic traits than the normally reconstructed forms for Proto-Indo-European.

Mocama

Some scholars, including Jerald T. Milanich and Edgar H. Sturtevant, consider the dialect known as Agua Salada, spoken in an unspecified stretch of the Florida coast south of the Mocama Province, to be identical.


Albert D. Sturtevant

With another plane from the same unit, piloted by a South African named Faux, their assignment was to escort a convoy of ships carrying beef between Holland and Britain.

Edgar H. Lloyd

On that day, near Pompey, France, he single-handedly destroyed five enemy machine gun positions.

Fons Trompenaars

Cross-cultural management textbook: Lessons from the world leading experts, Introduction by Edgar H. Schein with Charles Hampden-Turner, Meredith Belbin et al.

Subir Chowdhury

Among the contributors listed are Richard E. Boyatzis, James A. Champy, Allan R. Cohen, Jay A. Conger, Samuel A. Culbert, Christopher DeRose, Dexter Dunphy, David Finegold, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy, Rob Goffee, Robert L. Heneman, Harvey A. Hornstein, Andrew, Kakabadse, Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, Edgar H. Schein, and Noel M. Tichy.

William C. Sturtevant

He served first as a research anthropologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology before being appointed Curator of North American Ethnology in the U.S. National Museum (later the National Museum of Natural History), Smithsonian Institution.


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