Two older brothers owned a dry goods business in New York City and that is where Levi … Claude Lévi-Strauss (November 28, 1908 – October 30, 2009) was a French anthropologist and one of the most prominent social scientistsof the twentieth century. Born in Bavaria, Germany his family was discriminated against because they were Jewish. Businessman. He is best known as the founder of structural anthropology and for his theory of structuralism. The San Francisco Board of Trade passed a special resolution marking his death: "The great causes of education and charity have likewise suffered a signal loss in the death of Mr. Strauss, whose splendid endowments to the University of California will be an enduring testimonial of his worth as a liberal, public-minded citizen and whose numberless unostentatious acts of charity in which neither race nor creed … After his death, his nephew Jacob Stern took over as company president. Shortly after his father died Levi, his mother, and two sisters came to the United States. Mr Strauss died at his residence, 621 Leavenworth Street [San Francisco], on Friday night, after a brief indisposition, which, even to his physicians, Dr W W Kerr, Dr Herzstein and Dr Newmark, did not appear to … Claude Lévi-Strauss, (born Nov. 28, 1908, Brussels, Belg.—died Oct. 30, 2009, Paris, France), French social anthropologist and leading exponent of structuralism, a name applied to the analysis of cultural systems (e.g., kinship and mythical systems) in terms of the structural relations among their elements. Death has claimed Levi Strauss, another of the pioneers of the Golden West. Strauss died at the age of 73 on September 26, 1902, at his home in San Francisco. SAN ANTONIO — Nearly six months after a man was shot to death in an apartment complex parking lot, San Antonio police are asking for the public's help to track down his killer.