Patu Hohepa
New Zealand Māori language academic (1936–2023)
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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]
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Born
1936
Patrick Wahanga Hohepa
1936
Died (aged 87)
Waimā, New Zealand
ThesisA profile-generative grammar of Maori (1965)
Sir Patu Hohepa | |
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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 |
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]
