Background
Lowie, Robert Harry was born on June 12, 1883 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Samuel and Ernestine (Kuhn) Lowie.
Lowie, Robert Harry was born on June 12, 1883 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Samuel and Ernestine (Kuhn) Lowie.
Brought to the United States at age of 10. Bachelor of Arts, College City New York, 1901 (Phi Beta Kappa). Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1908.
Doctor of Science, University Chicago, 1941.
Assistant department anthropology American Museum Natural History, 1908-1909, assistant curator, 1909-1913, associate curator, 1913-1921. Lecturer Columbia University, 1920-1921. Associate professor anthropology University of California, 1917-1918, 21-25, professor, 1925-1950.
Visiting professor Yale, 1937.
Faculty research lecturer University of California, 1949. Anthropological expeditions to Northern Plains Indians, 1906-1914, 16, 31, Lake Athabaska, 1908, plateau tribes.
1914-1915, Hopi, 1915, 16. Viking Fund medalist, 1947.
Thomas H. Huxley Memorial lecturer and medalist, 1948.
Fellow American Ethnological Society (secretary 1910-1920. Member National Research Council (chairman division anthropology and psychology 1931-1932), National Academy Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Anthropological Association (president 1935), American Folk-Lore Society (president 1916-1917), German Ethnological Society (honorary), Bavarian Academy Scls. (correspondent; member), Societe des Americanistes de Paris (correspondent.
Member), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Club: Faculy (Berkeley).
Married Luella West. Cole, August 23, 1933.