Alfred Steinmann

Alfred Steinmann (born January 10, 1892 in Lucerne ; † January 3, 1974 in Zurich ) was a Swiss ethnologist .

Life

From 1911 he studied botany, geography and ethnology at the University of Zurich (1916 Dr. phil. Nat. ). He was an assistant at the Institute for General Botany. From 1920 he was a specialist in the treatment of plant diseases, v. a. of those of the tea tree, at the Buitenzorg Institute on Java. From 1937 to 1938 studied ethnology in Vienna. In 1939 he became a private lecturer at the University of Zurich for ethnology. From 1948 to 1962 he taught as adjunct professor and from 1941 to 1963 he was the director of the Ethnographic Collection at the University of Zurich, from which the Ethnological Museum emerged.

Fonts (selection)

• Studies of the acidity of the cell sap in rhubarb . Jena 1916, OCLC 636572468 .
• with Ruth Brand-Lederer and Denise Daenzer: Exhibition of Indonesian textiles. Collection Dr. Alfred Steinmann, Sept. 21 to Oct. 1938 . Zurich 1938, OCLC 84088184 .
• The ornaments of the ikat fabrics of Sumba . St. Gallen 1940, OCLC 79815531 .
• Introduction to the Ethnology Collection of the University of Zurich . Zurich 1956, OCLC 15088420 .

literature

• Walter Raunig (Ed.): Festschrift Alfred Steinmann . Bern 1972, OCLC 600422356 .
• Peter R. Gerber and Verena Münzer: 100 years of the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich . Zurich 1998, pp. 57–62, ISBN 3-123-45678-9 .
• Christian Baertschi: Alfred Steinmann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 7, 2010 , accessed March 24, 2020 .