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George Grant MacCurdy

American anthropologist

Died when: 84 years 212 days (1014 months)
Star Sign: Aries

 

George Grant MacCurdy

George Grant MacCurdy (April 17, 1863 – November 15, 1947) was an American anthropologist, born at Warrensburg, Mo., where he graduated from the State Normal School in 1887, after which he attended Harvard (AB, 1893;

AM, 1894); then studied in Europe at Vienna, Paris (School of Anthropology), and at Berlin (1894–1898; and at Yale (PhD, 1905).He was employed at Yale from 1902 onward as instructor, lecturer, curator of the anthropological collections (1902–1910), and assistant professor of archaeology after 1910.

He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.


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