Beatrix Pfleiderer

Beatrix Pfleiderer (born July 29, 1941 in Heilbronn ; † August 20, 2011 ) was a German anthropologist who specialized in medical ethnology.

Life

Beatrix Pfleiderer was the daughter of Herbert Pfleiderer (1912–1982) and his wife Brigitte, geb. Flammer (1919-2010). She studied in Munich , at the University of Maryland and later in Heidelberg . There she later worked as a lecturer at a European branch of the University of Maryland. In the 1980s she held a C2 position in the field of South Asia and socialization research at the Hamburg Institute for Ethnology . She had reached this position on the basis of earlier publications without submitting a habilitation thesis . She later held a lectureship in medical anthropology at the Institute for Transcultural Health Sciences at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt (Oder) . From 1989 to 1991 she was visiting professor at the University of Hawai'i . After that she did not want to return to Hamburg and from 1992 onwards she built the La'akea Gardens in Hawaii , a training farm for permaculture . To do this she used her inheritance; Her father was, among other things, managing partner and later head of the wood processing company GA Pfleiderer in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate .

In her first marriage, Beatrix Pfleiderer was married to the doctor Wolfgang Becker, in her second marriage to the Indologist Lothar Lutze .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beatrix Pfleiderer in the Hamburg professors catalog (accessed October 1, 2019) 
2. ↑ Dieter Haller, Dunja Moeller: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Beatrix Pfleiderer. * July 29, 1941 † August 20, 2011 . In: Curare 34, 2011, issue 4, pp. 359-362 ( online ( memento from January 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )).