George Herzog

George Herzog (11th Dec 1901, Budapest — 4th Nov 1983, Indianapolis, IN) was a Hungarian-American anthropologist, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the Society For Ethnomusicology founders along with David P. McAllester, Alan P. Merriam, Willard Rhodes, and Charles Seeger. Herzog was on the Board of Advisors of the Institute Of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, serving as the Institute's president in 1955. Herzog studied at the Budapest Music Academy (1917-'19) and Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. In 1921, he became an assistant to Carl Stumpf and Erich M. Von Hornbostel at the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv. Since 1925, George Herzog lived in the United States, where he received a doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University after postgraduate studies under Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and Ruth Fulton Benedict. His doctoral thesis, A comparison of Pueblo and Pima Musical styles (published in 1938), established Herzog's reputation as one the most reputable and well-regarded American Indian music scholars at the time. Apart from Columbia, George Herzog taught and researched at the University of Chicago and Yale University. He received Guggenheim Fellowship twice, in 1935 and '47. From 1948 till '58, Herzog served as a professor of anthropology at the Indiana University Bloomington, where he established the Archives of Traditional Music, a sound recording archive essentially designed after the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv.