Graham, David Crockett
ae05Songs and stories of the Ch'uan Miao
Songs and stories of the Ch'uan Miaobook chapter 1954
ae04The Lolo of Szechuan Province, China
The Lolo of Szechuan Province, Chinaarticle 1930
ae05The customs of the Ch'uan Miao
The customs of the Ch'uan Miaoarticle 1937
ae05The ceremonies of the Ch'uan Miao
The ceremonies of the Ch'uan Miaoarticle 1937
- Summary
- David Crockett Graham was a polymath American Baptist minister and missionary, educator, author, archaeologist, anthropologist, naturalist and field collector in the Province of Sichuan during the Chinese Republican Era, from 1911 to 1948. He was a 32nd degree Mason, and a past master of the Szechwan Lodge No. 112. From 1921 to 1942, Graham collected and sent to the Smithsonian Institution nearly 400,000 zoological specimens, including more than 230 new species and 9 new genera, of which 29 were named after him. From 1932 to 1942 he was curator of the Museum of Art, Archaeology and Ethnology at the West China Union University, which still stands as part of Sichuan University, in Chengdu. There, he taught comparative religions at the Theological College, and archaeology and anthropology at the University. He wrote extensively and spent his retirement years, from 1950 to 1961, in Englewood, Colorado compiling his writings and research into three books that were published by the Smithsonian Institution. A fourth manuscript lay in the Whitman College and Northwest Archives until it was discovered by Hartmut Walravens, who edited it and published it in 2018. McKhann refers to Graham as "One of a handful of Western missionaries whose scientific work was respected by other scientists—and of even fewer scientists whose religious work was respected by other missionaries." Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][4]
- Unknown [3]
- Born
- 1884 [3]
- 1884-03-21 [1]
- Birth Place
- Green Forest [1]
- Green Forest, Ark. [4]
- Died
- 1961 [3]
- 1961-09-15 [1]
- Death Place
- Englewood [1]
- Englewwod, Colo. [4]
- Country
- United States [3]
- Language
- English [4]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [1]
- curator [1]
- Profession
- Missionar [3]
- Educated at
- University of Chicago [1]
- Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School [1]
- Whitman College [1]
- Country of Education
- United States [1]
- Archives at
- Smithsonian Institution Archives [1]
- Sources
- 1. Wikidata
- 2. VIAF
- 3. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 4. Bibliothèque nationale de France
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