Paul Fejos
<h2 >1941–1963: Career as anthropologist and final years[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Fejos&action=edit§ion=6" title="Edit section: 1941–1963: Career as anthropologist and final years" >edit</a>]</h2>
<p >In 1941, Fejos both stopped making films and travelling to become Director of Research and acting head of the Viking Fund, a non-profit foundation based in New York City and created that same year by Axel Wenner-Gren. It was later renamed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenner-Gren_Foundation_for_Anthropological_Research" class="mw-redirect" title="Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research" >Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research</a>. He went on to become highly respected in his field and was considered ahead of his time for calling for communication between various branches of anthropology. During this time Fejos also taught at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanford" >Stanford</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale" >Yale</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University" >Columbia University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wakeman_3-18" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fejos#cite_note-wakeman-3" >[3]</a></sup>
In 1958 Fejos married anthropologist Lita Binns, who would succeed him as research Director when he died on April 23, 1963. His obituary writer David Bidney said that "Paul Fejos had the temperament of an artist rather than a scholar or research scientist...He supported not only research projects but also, and primarily. individuals whom he trusted and considered worthy of support...His personal support of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin" title="Pierre Teilhard de Chardin" >Pierre Teilhard de Chardin</a> during the last years of the life of this eccentric genius is but one outstanding example...He leaves behind him the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research which he built, an international host of friends whom he helped, and a wife whom he cherished and appreciated."<sup id="cite_ref-wakeman_3-19" class="reference" ><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fejos#cite_note-wakeman-3" >[</a>Wiki</sup></p>