Birth Name:

Samuel Hoyt Elbert

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Aug 08, 1907

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Age:

117

Zodiac Sign:

Leo

Astrology Data:

Sun

15°

Leo

1'

About Samuel Hoyt Elbert

Samuel Hoyt Elbert (8 August 1907 – 14 May 1997) was an American linguist who made major contributions to Hawaiian and Polynesian lexicography and ethnography. Born on a farm in Des Moines, Iowa, to Hugh and Ethelind Elbert, Sam grew up riding horses, one of his favorite pastimes well into retirement. After graduating from Grinnell College with an A.B. in 1928, he earned a certificate in French at the University of Toulouse and traveled in Europe before returning to New York City, where he waited tables, clerked for a newspaper, reviewed books, and studied journalism at Columbia University. Wanderlust took him to French Polynesia, first to Tahiti and then to the Marquesas, where he quickly became proficient in Marquesan. In 1936, he went to work for the United States Geological Survey in Hawaiʻi. There he met researchers on Pacific languages and cultures at the Bishop Museum, chief among them Mary Kawena Pukui, from whom he learned Hawaiian and with whom he worked closely over a span of forty years. When war broke out in the Pacific, the U.S. Navy employed him as an intelligence officer studying the languages of strategically important islands. He was posted to Samoa in 1943, then to Micronesia, where he collected and published wordlists for several island languages.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Samuel Hoyt Elbert: Sun 15 Leo, Moon 9 Leo, Mercury 27 Cancer, Venus 4 Leo, Mars 6 Capricorn, Jupiter 27 Cancer, Saturn 26 Pisces, Uranus 9 Capricorn, Neptune 13 Cancer, Pluto 24 Gemini, Mercury Conjunct Jupiter, Mercury Trine Saturn, Sun Semi Sextile Neptune, Venus Quincunx Mars, Mars Conjunct Uranus, Jupiter Trine Saturn, Saturn Square Pluto, Uranus Opposition Neptune

Categories related to Samuel Hoyt Elbert: 1997 deaths, August 8 births, Indiana University alumni, University of Toulouse alumni, Linguists from the United States, 20th-century linguists, Grinnell College alumni, Linguists of Austronesian languages, 1907 births