![]() ![]() ![]() in 1937 from University of Pennyslvania and immediately received an assistant proferssorship at the University of Kansas, where he worked until leaving for a three-year stay at Oberlin College in Ohio in 1944. ![]() He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1933 with a degree in anthropology. Eiseley used his anthropological disciplines to reflect on the vortex of finitude and infinity that he saw in every living being. From the first of his 11 books - "The Immense Journey," with 500,000 copies sold - through his most recent - the autobiographical "All The Strange Hours," subtitled "The Excavation of a Life" - Dr. Eiseley was known to readers around the world. Yet it was less for his scientific accument than for his deeply reflective sense of the poetic in man that Dr. Eiseley had been associated with the University of Pennsylvania for more than 30 years both as professor and provost. Internationally known as an expert on Darwinian theory. Eiseley, and anthropologist who used the bones of the past as a telescope to the beyond, died of cancer Saturday in Philadelphia after an illness of several years.He was 60. ![]()
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