Paul Gebhard
Paul Henry Gebhard (July 3, 1917 – July 9, 2015) was an American anthropologist and sexologist. Born in Rocky Ford, Colorado, he earned a B.S. and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1940 and 1947, respectively. Between the years 1946 and 1956, Gebhard was a close colleague to sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.[1] Following Kinsey's death in 1956,[1] Gebhard became the second director of the Kinsey Institute and served in that capacity from 1956 to 1982. He co-authored the second of the two Kinsey Reports. He has also claimed that the statistical bias in the data had not materially affected the results of either of the two reports.[1] He joined the Department of Anthropology of Indiana University in 1947, and retired in 1986.
Biography
Paul Gebhard was born to Paul Gebhard, Sr. and Eva Baker, who worked as an elementary schoolteacher. He married and later divorced Agnes West, and was married to Joan Huntington until her death in 2004.[2] Following a brief illness, Gebhard died near his home in Indiana on July 9, 2015, aged 98.[3] He was survived by three children of his first marriage and two stepchildren from his second.[2]
Major works
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)
- Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion (1958)
- The Kinsey Data: Marginal Tabulations of the 1938-1963 Interviews Conducted by the Institute for Sex Research (1979)
In the media
In the 2004 film Kinsey, actor Timothy Hutton stars as Gebhard.
References
External links
- Brief biographical note
- Kinsey Institute biographical obituary
- Paul Gebhard at the Internet Movie Database
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