Updated Feb 20, 2026
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Died
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Nationality
Sport
Athletics
Languages
English
Spouse
Jean Erdman (1938-1987)
Education
Canterbury School, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Zodiac Sign
♈ Aries
Chinese Zodiac
龙 Dragon
Name Origin
English < Biblical Hebrew (יוֹסֵף)
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Year context
Born in 1904 -- Construction of the Panama Canal begins; Theodore Roosevelt was US president
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Zodiac
Year of the Dragon, sign of Aries
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Biography
Joseph John Campbell was an American writer and the husband of Jean Erdman. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.
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