Sir Patu Hohepa | |
Birth Name: | Patrick Wahanga Hohepa |
Death Place: | Waimā, New Zealand |
Alma Mater: | Indiana University |
Thesis Title: | A profile-generative grammar of Maori |
Thesis Year: | 1965 |
Discipline: | Māori language |
Workplaces: | University of Auckland |
Sir Patrick Wahanga Hohepa (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]
Hohepa was born in 1936,[2] and died at his home in Waimā on 22 September 2023, at the age of 87.[3] [4]