What is Robert Lowie?
'''Robert Harry Lowie''' (born ''{{lang|de|Robert Heinrich Löwe}}''; June 12, 1883 – September 21, 1957) was an [[Austria]]n-born [[United States|American]] [[anthropologist]]. == Early life and education == He was born on June 12, 1883 to an [[Austrian]] mother and [[Hungarians|Hungarian]] father in [[Vienna]]. He lived there until he was ten years old then moved to [[New York City]]. In New York he surrounded himself with [[Germany|German]] friends and family and even continued to speak [[Viennese German|Viennese]] at home. For the rest of his life he felt like he was a member of both American and German-Austrian [[Culture|cultures]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.americanethnography.com/article.php?id=6#.WmkWY7aZN0s|title=American Ethnography Quasimonthly {{!}} Death|last=?|website=American Ethnography Quasimonthly|access-date=2018-01-24}}</ref> He studied [[Latin]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[philosophy]], and science at [[City College of New York|the City College of New York]] and got graduated in 1901. Then he worked as a teacher in New York City public schools for three years. Then in 1904 he started to go to [[Columbia University]] for [[graduate school]] and it was there that he met [[Franz Boas]], a famous anthropologist. Boas became Lowie's teacher and role model. Lowie liked Boas because both had German background and similar interest in details and not the [[Abstraction|abstractions]] about human cultures. As a student of Boas, Lowie was tasked with writing a [[thesis]] about the [[Crow Nation|Native American Crow tribe]], which made him interested in other tribes. He graduated from Columbia with his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] in 1908 and worked at the [[American Museum of Natural History|Natural History Museum]] in New York City till 1921. He enjoyed researching and writing, so he continued to do those things throughout his life. He did extensive [[Participant observation|ethnographic field work]] during this time. He studied more than nine [[Native American|Native American tribes]] in his lif