Paul William Friedrich (October 22, 1927 – August 11, 2016) was an American anthropologist, linguist, poet, and Professor of Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Paul Friedrich was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts[1] to parents Lenore Pelham and political theorist Carl J.
[2] His father was a professor of government at Harvard University from 1926-1971 and became the president of the American Political Science Association in 1962.
Friedrich returned to Michoacán in the mid 1960s for further study with his second wife material culture specialist Margaret Hardin.
[3] In 2005, his former students honored him with a festschrift titled Language, Culture and the Individual: A Tribute to Paul Friedrich.