Egon damage

Egon Schaden (born July 4, 1913 in São Bonifácio , Brazil , † September 16, 1991 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian ethnologist .

Under the influence of his father Francisco Schaden , who (born in Leipzig) had emigrated to Brazil in 1910, Egon Schaden became interested in ethnological and anthropological questions at an early age. Before he decided to study ethnology and anthropology and pursue an academic career, he had obtained a licentiate in philosophy and pedagogy in 1937 and taught history, geography, Portuguese and German as a teacher. Until 1941 he was engaged in field research on the Indian population in Brazil and with translations. In 1941 he became the first research assistant to Emilio Willems at the University of São Paulo. Egon Schaden received his doctorate in anthropology and anthropology from the state Universidade de São Paulo , where he also completed his habilitation and, since 1952 , has held the chair of anthropology as the successor to Emilio Willems, who went to Vanderbilt University in the USA . From 1965 he was full professor of Brazilian ethnography and anthropology at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo . At the Paulistan University of Applied Sciences Escola de Comunicagäo e Artes, he headed the Department de Comunicagäo e Artes, where he introduced and taught communication anthropology.

Damage lived among Brazilian Indians for many years. Along with Emilio Willems and Herbert Baldus, he belongs to the trio of ethnologists who founded academic South American ethnology.

Egon Schaden died in São Paulo as a result of a traffic accident.

literature

• Thekla Hartmann, Vera Penteado Coelho (eds.): Contribuições à antropologia: Homenagem a Egon Schaden , São Paulo 1981.

Web links

• Article by João Baptista Borges Pereira (1994, port.) On Emilio Willems and Egon Schaden