Benita Luckmann

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Benita Luckmann (born December 22, 1925 in Riga as Benita Petkević ; † December 3, 1987 in Gottlieben , Switzerland ) was an American sociologist of Latvian origin.

Life

After difficult years in Riga, first due to the Soviet and then to the German occupation, Benita Petkević fled to Vienna (later to Salzburg ) in the winter of 1944 , where she worked as a nurse in hospitals . After the end of the Second World War , she first studied theology at the University of Salzburg , then philosophy at the University of Innsbruck . At the same time she participated in the refugee aid of American organizations. In 1950 she emigrated to the USA. Shortly before emigrating, she married Thomas Luckmann . Until 1956 she studied sociology and political science at the New School for Social Research .

She then taught at Hobart College in Geneva , New York , until 1961 . As a scholarship holder , she studied for a year at the University of Freiburg (especially with Arnold Bergstraesser and Eugen Fink ) and received her doctorate there in 1962 with a dissertation on Russia as a developing country. This was followed by an academic teaching position at Rutgers University in New Brunswick ( New Jersey ) and occasionally at the University of Freiburg. In 1965 she followed Thomas Luckmann to Germany when he became a professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main . After being appointed to the University of Konstanz , they both moved to Switzerland.

Benita Luckmann emerged as a translator for Alfred Schütz from the American and researched and published on problems of small living environments , on questions of exile and together with her husband on the sociology of knowledge . Anne Honer was one of her students . In 1987 she succumbed to a serious illness.

Fonts (selection)

  • Russia as a developing country. Effects of the Soviet development policy on the worldview of the Russian farmers . Diss. Phil., 1965
  • Politics in a small German town , Stuttgart: Enke, 1970, ISBN 3-432-01618-2
  • The Small Life-Worlds of Modern Man . In: Thomas Luckmann (Ed.): Phenomenology and Sociology . Penguin, Harmondsworth 1978, pp. 275-290
  • with Thomas Luckmann: Knowledge and Prejudice . 2 volumes. FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen 1979 and 1983
  • New School - Variants of Return from Exile and Emigration . In: Ilja Srubar (Ed.): Exile, Science, Identity. The emigration of German social scientists 1933–1945 . Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-28302-2 , pp. 353-378

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Her analysis of the small town of Bretten in Baden became known , the surveys ran from 1963 to 1967, the result was the book Politics in a German Small Town . The review by Fritz Brühl: A small town is x-rayed , in: Die Zeit , No. 16/1971.
personal data
SURNAME Luckmann, Benita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petkević, Benita (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 1987
Place of death Gottlieb , Switzerland