Yoder, Don
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Name (Latin)
Yoder, Don
Date of birth
1921-08-27
Date of death
2015-08-11
Field of activity
United States--Social life and customs--Study and teaching
pennsylvania dutch social life and customs research
Occupation
Authors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Philly.com, via WWW, Aug. 19, 2015(in obituary posted Aug. 18, 2015: Don Yoder; Univ. of Pa. prof. of folklife for 40 yrs.; died Aug. 11; he was less than three weeks from his 94th birthday, Aug. 27; lived in Devon; born in Altoona; devoted to the history of Pennsylvania, especially the folkways of the Pennsylvania Dutch; Ph.D in religious studies from the University of Chicago in 1947; joined the Penn faculty in 1956; father of the folklife movement in America; founded the first folklife studies program in the U.S.)
- His Pennsylvania spirituals, 1961.
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 8/27/21)