List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1939
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1939 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
- Ernst BaconErnst BaconErnst Lecher Bacon was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. A prolific author, Bacon composed over 250 songs over his career. He was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship in 1932 for his Second Symphony.-Biography:Ernst Bacon was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May...
, Deceased. Music Composition: 1939, 1942, 1964. - Lawrence Rogers Blinks, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1939, 1948, 1957.
- Karl Richard Bopp, Deceased. Economics: 1939.
- Herschel Brickell, Deceased. General Non-Fiction: 1939.
- William Smith Clark II, Deceased. Theatre Arts: 1939.
- Robert Donaldson Darrell, Deceased. Musicologist:New York: 1939.
- Adolf DehnAdolf DehnAdolf Dehn was born in Waterville, Minnesota, November 22, 1895 and he died in New York City, May 19 1968. Two-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Dehn was one of the most notable lithographers of the 20th century...
, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1939, 1951. - John Dos PassosJohn Dos PassosJohn Roderigo Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist.-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dos Passos was the illegitimate son of John Randolph Dos Passos , a distinguished lawyer of Madeiran Portuguese descent, and Lucy Addison Sprigg Madison of Petersburg, Virginia. The elder Dos Passos...
, Deceased. General Non-Fiction: 1939, 1940, 1942. - Elmer EllisElmer EllisElmer Ellis was an American educator and fourteenth president of the University of Missouri and first president of the University of Missouri System. He was instrumental in the expansion of the university to include the University of Missouri–Kansas City and University of Missouri–St. Louis...
, Deceased. U.S. History: 1939. - Wallace K. Ferguson, Deceased. Renaissance Studies: 1939.
- Anis FuleihanAnis FuleihanAnis Fuleihan was a Cypriot-born American composer, conductor and pianist.A native of Kyrenia, Fuleihan belongs to a Christian Lebanese family; he attended the English School in that town before coming to the United States in 1915...
, Deceased. Music Composition: 1939. - Isidore Gersh, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1939.
- Mary Barnett Gilson, Deceased. Economics: 1939.
- Michael Ginsburg, Deceased. Classics: 1939, 1942.
- Zellig Sabbettai Harris, Deceased. Linguistics: 1939.
- Richard Mansfield Haywood, Deceased. Classics: 1939.
- Louis George Henyey, Deceased. Astronomy-Astrophysics: 1939.
- Earl Martin Hildebrand, Deceased. Plant Science. 1939.
- Hubert Maxwell James, Deceased. Physics: 1939.
- Charles W. JonesCharles W. Jones (medievalist)Charles W. Jones was a medievalist scholar who served on the faculties of Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley. He is noted for his work on Bede, the development of the ecclesiastical calendar, medieval hagiography, and Carolingian aesthetics...
, Deceased. Medieval Literature: 1939, 1945. - Karl LoewensteinKarl LoewensteinKarl Loewenstein was a German philosopher and political scientist, regarded as one of the prominent figures of Constitutional law in the twentieth century....
, Deceased. Political Science: 1939. - Hilda F. Lund, Deceased. Plant Science: 1939. Appointed as Hilda F. Rosene.
- John Joseph Mathews, Deceased. Non-Fiction: 1939.
- Leland S. McClung, Professor Emeritus of Microbiology, Indiana University: 1939.
- John McCrady, Deceased. Fine Arts-Painting: 1939.
- Rose C. L. Mooney, Deceased. Chemistry: 1939. Appointed as Slater, Rose C.
- Ernest Campbell MossnerErnest Campbell MossnerErnest Campbell Mossner professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, and a biographer of David Hume.-Life:Ernest Campbell Mossner was born on October 22 1907 in New York City...
, Deceased. Intellectual History: 1939, 1945. - Herbert Joseph Muller, Deceased. Literary Criticism: 1939.
- Everett John Nelson, Deceased. Philosophy: 1939.
- Charles John Olson, Deceased. American Literature: 1939, 1948.
- Gregory Pincus, Deceased. Biology: 1939, 1940.
- Gaines Post, Deceased. Medieval History: 1939, 1955.
- Meyer SchapiroMeyer SchapiroMeyer Schapiro was a Lithuanian-born American art historian known for forging new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art...
, Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1939, 1942. - William Howard Schuman, Deceased. Music Composition: 1939, 1940.
- Walter Rice Sharp, Deceased. Political Science: 1939.
- Harold Augustus Sinclair, Deceased. Fiction: 1939.
- Chester Stock, Deceased. Earth Science: 1939, 1940.
- Eugene Trentham, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1939.
- Robert Choate Tryon, Deceased. Psychology: 1939.
- A. J. van Rossem, Deceased. Biology: 1939.
- Eliseo Vivas, Deceased. Philosophy: 1939.
- Robert Penn WarrenRobert Penn WarrenRobert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935...
, Deceased. Fiction: 1939, 1947 - Edward WestonEdward WestonEdward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of...
, Deceased. Photography, 1939, 1940. - Harold Whitehall, Deceased. Linguistics: 1939.
- Harry Wickey, Deceased. Fine Arts-Sculpture: 1939, 1940.
- Arthur McCandless Wilson, Deceased. Biography: 1939, 1956.
- Howard Wolf, Deceased. U.S. History: 1939, 1940.
- Melville Lawrence Wolfrom, Deceased. Chemistry: 1939.
- Elmer Wood, Deceased. Economics: 1939.
- Richard WrightRichard Wright (author)Richard Nathaniel Wright was an African-American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially those involving the plight of African-Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries...
, Deceased. Fiction: 1939. - Oscar ZariskiOscar ZariskiOscar Zariski was a Russian mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.-Education:...
, Deceased. Mathematics: 1939. - Carl Zigrosser, Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1939, 1940.
1939 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
- Roberto BerdecioRoberto BerdecioRoberto Berdecio was a Bolivian-born artist.A significant contributor to the important political and cultural art movement in Mexico during the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Sucre, Bolivia....
, Artist: 1939. - Hugo Pablo Chiodi, Deceased. Medicine: 1939, 1940.
- Julio de la Arena y Fernández, Physician: 1939.
- Alberto González Domínguez, Deceased. Mathematics: 1939.
- Mario O. González Rodríguez, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Alabama: 1939.
- Raimundo LidaRaimundo LidaRaimundo Lida was an Argentine philologist, philosopher of language, literary critic and essayist. He specialised in Romance philology, the literature of the Spanish Golden Age and modernist literature. He taught at Harvard University from 1953, where he was chair of the department of Romance...
, Deceased. Spanish: 1939, 1959. - Carlos Orozco RomeroCarlos Orozco RomeroCarlos Orozco Romero was a Mexican artist.Orozco was self-trained, and was awarded a scholarship for a study trip to Europe in 1921. In 1939 he achieved a Guggenheim Fellowship and travelled to New York City in 1941...
, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1939. - Raúl Palacios von Helms, Deceased. Medicine: 1939, 1940.
- Juan Pedro Picena, Professor Emeritus of Pathology, National University of Rosario: 1939.
See also
- Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...