Harry Hoijer

Harry Hoijer (September 6, 1904 – March 11, 1976) was a linguist and anthropologist who worked on primarily Athabaskan languages and culture. He additionally documented the Tonkawa language, which is now extinct. Hoijer's few works make up the bulk of material on this language. Hoijer was a student of Edward Sapir.

Harry Hoijer
Born	September 6, 1904 Chicago
Died	11 March 1976(1976-03-11) (aged 71)
Nationality	American
Known for	Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
Scientific career
Fields	linguist and anthropologist
Institutions	University of Chicago
Academic advisors	Edward Sapir

Hoijer contributed greatly to the documentation of the Southern and Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages and to the reconstruction of proto-Athabaskan. Harry Hoijer collected a large number of valuable fieldnotes on many Athabaskan languages, which are unpublished. Some of his notes on Lipan Apache and the Tonkawa language are lost.

Hoijer coined the term "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis".^[1]