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People Who Studied Abroad #631:
Brassaï, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker
From:
Kingdom of Hungary (now Romania)
Studied:
In 1920 he went to Berlin, Germany, where he enrolled at the Berlin University of the Arts.
![People Who Studied Abroad #625:Joseph Campbell, author
From:
United States
Studied:
After he graduated from Columbia University, Columbia granted him a fellowship to study in Europe. He studied Old French, Provençal and Sanskrit at the University of Paris (France) and at the University of Munich (Germany).
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People Who Studied Abroad #625:
Joseph Campbell, author
From:
United States
Studied:
After he graduated from Columbia University, Columbia granted him a fellowship to study in Europe. He studied Old French, Provençal and Sanskrit at the University of Paris (France) and at the University of Munich (Germany).
People Who Studied Abroad #624:
Eric Brown, decorated test pilot and British Navy pilot
From:
United Kingdom
Studied:
He was an exchange student at Salem International College (Schule Schloss Salem) in Germany until September 1939. When Britain declared war on Germany, he was arrested by the SS and escorted out of Germany.
People Who Studied Abroad #619:
Dennis Gabor, Nobel Prize-winning electrical engineer and physicist and inventor of holography
From:
Hungary
Studied:
He first studied at the Technical University of Budapest, then at the Charlottenburg Technical University in Berlin, Germany (now the Technical University of Berlin).
People Who Studied Abroad #615:
John Henry Comstock, entomologist and arachnologist
From:
United States
Studied:
He graduated from Cornell University, then pursued further study at Yale University and the University of Leipzig (Germany).
![People Who Studied Abroad #612:Jørgen Zoëga, archaeologist
From:
Denmark
Studied:
Beginning in 1773, he studied philosophy and classics at the University of Göttingen and then later at Leipzig and Vienna.
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People Who Studied Abroad #612:
Jørgen Zoëga, archaeologist
From:
Denmark
Studied:
Beginning in 1773, he studied philosophy and classics at the University of Göttingen and then later at Leipzig and Vienna.
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People Who Studied Abroad #607:
Francis, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
From:
Argentina
Studied:
He did some doctoral work at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt, Germany.
Source: spiegel.de
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People Who Studied Abroad #603:
Sidney Farber, pediatric pathologist and father of modern chemotherapy
From:
United States
Studied:
He spent his first year of medical school studying at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany and then entered Harvard Medical School as a second-year student.
People Who Studied Abroad #602:
Inez Milholland, suffragist, journalist and lawyer
From:
United States
Studied:
She studied at Kensington High School in London, England and Willard School for Girls in Berlin, Germany before beginning her college degree at Vassar College. After graduation, she applied to study law at Oxford and Cambridge but was denied due to her gender. She received her LLB degree from New York University instead, in 1912.
People Who Studied Abroad #582:
Miklós Rózsa, Oscar-winning composer
From:
Hungary
Studied:
He enrolled at the University of Leipzig (Germany) in 1925 to study chemistry, but then transferred to the Leipzig Conservatory to study music.
People Who Studied Abroad #577:
Daniel Jones, phonetician (and possibly the inspiration for the character of Henry Higgins in Pygmalion/My Fair Lady)
From:
England
Studied:
Jones was first introduced to phonetics while studying at the Marburg Language Institute in Germany in 1901. From 1905-06, he studied in Paris under Paul Passy.
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![People Who Studied Abroad #570:Thomas Young, scientist (with contributions to the fields of physics, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology)
From:
Great Britain
Studied:
He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Göttingen (Germany) in 1796.
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People Who Studied Abroad #570:
Thomas Young, scientist (with contributions to the fields of physics, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology)
From:
Great Britain
Studied:
He received his doctorate in physics from the University of Göttingen (Germany) in 1796.
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People Who Studied Abroad #542:
Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund
From:
Studied:
While pursuing a degree at Spelman College, she received the Merrill Scholarship, which allowed her to spend the 1958-59 school year studying at the University of Paris and in Geneva, Switzerland. She spent the following summer traveling to East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union thanks to a Lisle Fellowship.
Source: learningtogive.org
People Who Studied Abroad #540:
Wassily Kandinsky, painter
From:
Russia
Studied:
After starting a career in law and economics, he changed paths at age 30 to become a painter. He moved to Munich, Germany in 1896 and enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts.
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People Who Studied Abroad #534:
Gordon Allport, psychologist (founding figure in personality psychology)
From:
United States
Studied:
He received his PhD in 1922 from Harvard, which then awarded him the Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. He spent the first year of the scholarship studying with the new Gestalt School in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany and the second year at the University of Cambridge.
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