William Churchill,his field of expertise is Ethnology and Philology

William Churchill

William Churchill

Date of Birth :

1859-05-10

Place of Birth :

Brooklyn,New York

Country :

United States

Field of Expertise :

Ethnology and Philology

Educational background :

Ph.D from Yale University.

Acheivements / Contributions :

When William returned home he became a librarian at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
He served at the Signal Service Bureau in Washington D.C., and in 1891 he became the Editor of the Brooklyn Daily Times.
Later he was allotted U.S.A. Counsel General to Samoa.
In 1886, William started studying Polynesian languages, related to what the natives spoke.
He went back to the United States and began an intensive study of the Samoan culture at his home in Brooklyn.
William spent several years studying Polynesian and Melanesian cultures.
By 1915, he became the Associate in Primitive Physiology of Carnegie Institution in Washington D.C. William died in 1920.

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