Frederick Starr was an American academic, anthropologist, and "populist educator" born in Auburn, New York.
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,471 |
12 Facts About Frederick Starr
2.
Frederick Starr earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester and a doctorate in geology at Lafayette College .
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,472 |
3.
Frederick Starr moved to the University of Chicago in 1891; he served in its faculty for the next 31 years.
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,473 |
4.
Frederick Starr was an Assistant professor, and he gained tenure in 1896.
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,474 |
5.
Much like ethnologist Carl Sofus Lumholtz, Frederick Starr traveled to the Purepecha community of Cheran, Michoacan located in the Meseta Purepecha in the state of Michoacan.
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,475 |
6.
Unlike his predecessor, Frederick Starr successfully obtained Amerindian bones, said to have been dug up from a nearby ancient burial.
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,476 |
7.
Frederick Starr intended to take these with him to the U S for the collection of the University of Chicago.
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,477 |
8.
Frederick Starr's work is often cited as an example of the whitewashing campaign King Leopold II conducted from 1884 to 1912, known as the Congo Free State Propaganda War.
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,478 |
9.
Frederick Starr extensively reported on the abuse of the indigenous peoples by the private Belgian police which the king used to impose a state of virtual slavery for rubber workers.
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,479 |
10.
Frederick Starr happened to be in Japan when the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake and subsequent major fires struck the main island of Honshu.
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,480 |
11.
Dr Frederick Starr had escaped to the relative safety of Zojo-ji, a famous Buddhist Temple in Tokyo's Shiba district in what is today Minato ward.
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,481 |
12.
Frederick Starr was survived by his sister, Lucy Starr, who helped execute his estate.
| FactSnippet No. 1,453,482 |