Patu Hohepa
Sir Patu Hohepa | |
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.jpg) Hohepa in 2015 | |
| Born | Patrick Wahanga Hohepa 1936 |
| Died | (aged 87) Waimā, New Zealand |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Indiana University |
| Thesis | A profile-generative grammar of Maori (1965) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Māori language |
| Institutions | University of Auckland |
Sir Patrick Wahanga Hohepa KNZM (1936 – 22 September 2023) was a New Zealand Māori language academic. In the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori culture and education.[1]
He co-authored the 1987 book The Pūriri trees are laughing: a political history of Ngā Puhi in the inland Bay of Islands.[2] In 2025, this book was selected as one of the 180 most significant works of Māori-authored non-fiction.[3]
Hohepa was born in 1936,[4] and died at his home in Waimā on 22 September 2023, at the age of 87.[5][6]
References
- ↑ "The Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours List 2022". The New Zealand Herald. 6 June 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
- ↑ Sissons, Jeffrey; Wi Hongi, Wiremu; Hohepa, Patrick W. (1987). Ngā Pūrihi o Taiamai: a political history of Ngā Puhi in the inland Bay of Islands. Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand): Reed.
- ↑ Jacinta Ruru; Angela Wanhalla; Jeanette Wikaira, eds. (3 February 2025). Books of Mana: 180 Māori-Authored Books of Significance. Dunedin: Otago University Press. ISBN 978-1-990048-85-2. OCLC 1500153410. OL 60849900M. Wikidata Q138696477.
- ↑ "Hohepa, Patrick Wahanga (Dr), 1936–". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
- ↑ Wikaire-Lewis, Mana (22 September 2023). "Reo Māori scholar Sir Patu Wahanga Hohepa dies aged 87". Te Ao Māori News. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ↑ "Renowned te reo Māori scholar Sir Patrick (Patu) Hohepa dies". Radio New Zealand. 22 September 2023.