Paul Friedrich

Paul William Friedrich (October 22, 1927 – August 11, 2016) was an American anthropologist, linguist, poet, and Professor of Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Early life and education Paul Friedrich was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to parents Lenore Pelham and political theorist Carl J. Friedrich. His father was a professor of government at Harvard University from 1926 to 1971 and became the president of the American Political Science Association in 1962. In 1955 Friedrich took his wife and young daughters with him to research in the Mexican state of Michoacán. In 2007 Yale University awarded Friedrich with the Wilbur Cross Medal. A prolific poet, he also published seven collections of poems, some of them focusing on the haiku form.

Selected publications Proto-Indo-European Trees (1970) Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village (1977) The Meaning of Aphrodite (1978) The Language Parallax. Linguistics, Relativism and Poetic Creativity (1986) Music in Russian Poetry (1998)

Poetry From Root to Flower: Selected Poems (2006) Handholds: Haiku (2009) a goldfish instant: Concord to India haikus (2010)