Emilio Willems
Emilio Willems , until 1933 Emil Willems , (born August 18, 1905 in Cologne , † November 19, 1997 in Nashville , Tennessee ) was a German-American sociologist and ethnologist .
Life
Willems attended an old-language grammar school in Cologne and from 1924 studied economics, sociology and ethnology at the University of Cologne and the University of Berlin . Important academic teachers were Alfred Vierkandt and Richard Thurnwald .
In 1931 he moved to Brazil, where he first taught at a Catholic seminary and from 1936 taught sociology at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of São Paulo , where he was appointed professor in 1937.
Willems moved to the USA in 1949, where he taught until his retirement (1974) as a professor of sociology and ethnology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Works (selection)
- Aculturação dos alemães no Brasil , São Paulo, 1946.
- Cunha: Tradição e Transição em uma Cultura Rural do Brasil , 1947.
- Dicionário de sociologia , Porto Alegre, 1950.
- On the Concept of Assimilation (American Anthropologist, vol. 57 [1955]).
- The Prussian-German militarism , Cologne: Verlag Wissenschaft u. Politics, 1984.
- A way of life and death , Nashville, Tenn .: Vanderbilt University Press, 1986.
Translation into Portuguese
- Karl Mannheim : Ideologia e utopia , Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Globo, 1950.
Web links
- Article by João Baptista Borges Pereira (1994, port.) On Emilio Willems and Egon Schaden
- Vanderbilt University Obituary (1997)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willems, Emilio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Willems, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American sociologist and ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1997 |
| Place of death | Nashville , Tennessee , USA |