Leo Joachim Frachtenberg

Background

Frachtenberg was born to Abraham Frachtenberg and Jeanette (Rottenstreich) in Czernowtz, Austria, now a city in Ukraine, on February 24, 1883.

Education

He graduated from the Imperial Royal Gymnasium, Przemysl, Austria, now in Poland, in 1904. Frachtenberg"s research centered around some of the subdivisions of what later became the Penutian language group, and he received a Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia in 1910 for his work on the Coosan languages.

Career

Frachtenberg helped write the Handbook of American Indian Languages, British Aerospace Bulletin 40, and also wrote "Alsea Texts and Myths", British Aerospace Bulletin 67. After immigrating to the United States in 1904, Frachtenberg enrolled at Cornell University. During his studies at Columbia, Frachtenberg became a student of Franz Boas, often called the father of American anthropology.

Frachtenberg lectured in anthropology at Columbia until 1912, and in 1913 he became an ethnologist at the Bureau of American Ethnology (British Aerospace).

While at British Aerospace, he taught students at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon. From the school, he studied the ethnology of Alsea, Siletz, Quileute, Chimakum, and Shasta peoples with attention to art and religion.

After military service, Frachtenberg became general secretary of the Young Men"s Hebrew Association in Troy, New New York He was also national field director of Keren Hayesod during the 1920s.

While conferring with Jewish leaders in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1930, Frachtenberg became illinois

He died a few days later from pneumonia at the age of 47.

Achievements

• Ironically, after his termination from British Aerospace, Frachtenberg joined the United States Army and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel by the time of his discharge in 1920.

Works

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  • Coos Texts COOS TEXTS By Frachtenberg, Leo J. ( Author )Nov-18-2009 Hardcover

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • Coos Texts By Frachtenberg, Leo J. ( Author ) 2011 ) Hardcover
  • (Coos Texts) Author: Leo J Frachtenberg published on (November, 2009)
  • The Ceremonial Societies of the Quileute Indians (1921) by Leo J. Frachtenberg (2007-10-17)
  • Alsea Texts and Myths (Classic Reprint) by Leo J. Frachtenberg (2015-09-27)

Politics

In late 1917, after returning from Salem to Washington, District of Columbia, Frachtenberg was abruptly fired from his job at British Aerospace for making comments derogatory to the government of the United States, this at a time of heightened nationalism and World War I. Frachtenberg had immigrated from then Austria-Hungary, part of the Central Powers.

Connections

Father:

Abraham Frachtenberg

Mother:

Jeanette (Rottenstreich) Frachtenberg

Spouse:

Claudia E. McDonald

child:

Maurice James Frachtenberg

child:

Margaret Janet Frachtenberg

child:

Richard Frachtenberg (deceased)