![]() ![]() With his family, he lived in Japan, Taiwan, and China, and led members of his family on three round-the-world He was a real “Indiana Jones” and loved adventure and traveling throughout the world. ![]() He was fluent in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, and was internationally knownįor his scholarship on Mongolia and Inner Asia. Paul received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University a PhD in Historyįrom the University of California at Berkeley and taught Chinese History for 52 years in the BYU History Department. He married Harriet Catherine Johns in the Logan Temple on December 15, 1948. ![]() War II and returned to Hawaii to serve a Japanese speaking LDS mission after the war. Paul was born in Ogden, Utah on Jto Ariel Christian and Johanna (Van Woerkom) Hyer. University and LDS mission and temple president in Taipei, Taiwan, died on January 22, 2018. Paul Van Hyer, a founding member of Asian Studies at Brigham Young ![]()
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