John Hohenberg
John Hohenberg (February 17, 1906 – August 6, 2000) was an American journalist and academic. During his journalism career from the 1920s to 1950s, Hohenberg primarily worked at the
Early life and education
Hohenberg was born Jacob S. Hohenberg in a tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. When he was one and a half, he and his family relocated to Seattle, where they remained throughout his childhood and adolescence.[1] He attended the University of Washington as an engineering major from 1922 to 1924 before pursuing a journalistic career and returning to New York, where he received a B.Litt. from Columbia University's Journalism School (which then only conferred undergraduate degrees) in 1927. The following year, Hohenberg completed non-degree graduate studies at the University of Vienna on a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, presaging his later involvement with the awards program.[2][3]
Career
In 1923, Hohenberg worked at
After inquiring about a position with the Journalism School, Hohenberg returned to Columbia as a part-time undergraduate journalism lecturer at the
While at Columbia, he also served as a consultant to the
Following his mandatory retirement from Columbia, Hohenberg maintained a peripatetic academic career as a visiting professor, lecturer and professional-in-residence, teaching at the University of Tennessee (1975; 1976–1977; 1978–1981; 1987), the University of Kansas (1977–1978), the University of Florida (1981–1982), Harvard University (1981), the University of Miami (1982–1983) and Syracuse University (1983–1985). During this period, he also returned to the Pulitzers as a journalism juror on several occasions and conducted an Asian lecture tour for the United States Information Agency in 1982. Throughout his journalistic and academic careers, he published 22 books, including a popular college journalism textbook (The Professional Journalist), a novel and several institutional histories of the Pulitzers.
Personal life
After residing in
On August 6, 2000, he died in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he had been based since retiring from Columbia. He married Dorothy Lannuier, a classmate at the Columbia Journalism School, in 1928. She died from complications of Alzheimer's disease in 1977; they had no children. He was survived by his second wife, JoAnn Fogarty Johnson, and her two children, whom he adopted.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Martin, Douglas (August 8, 2000). "John Hohenberg, 94, Former Pulitzer Prize Official, Dies". The New York Times. p. A25. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ ISBN 1573561118. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ISBN 0837901928. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ ISBN 0810319357. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ "Professor Shifts Schools". The Daily Telegram. Vol. 160, no. 88. Adrian, Michigan. April 13, 1976. p. 18.
- ISBN 0824089618. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ "Professor John Hohenberg". Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ "Hohenberg Wins Special Citation (Published 1976)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-03-09.