Erhard Franz

Erhard Franz (* 1938 in Berlin ) is a German ethnologist who specializes in the Middle East.

After studying and doing field research in Turkey in 1966/67, Franz received his doctorate in 1969 from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on the village of Icadiye in Anatolia. He studied ancient history and theater studies as minor subjects. In Afghanistan, Franz carried out field research into the distribution and number of the Turkmen in 1970, before becoming a temporary assistant in the South Seas department of the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin in 1971. From 1972 to 2003 he worked as a research assistant at the German Orient Institute in Hamburg and published several papers.

Publications (selection)

• Rural Turkey in the 20th Century (2 parts). Hamburg 1974 (part 1) and 1975 (part 2)
• Minorities in Iran - Documentation on Ethnography and Politics . Hamburg 1981
• Kurds and Kurdish. Contemporary history of a people and their national movements . Hamburg 1986 (German Orient Institute. Communications. 30)
• Population Policy in Turkey - Family Planning and Migration between 1960 and 1992. Hamburg 1994 (Deutsches Orient-Institut. Mitteilungen. 48)
• Aleviler / Alewiten (3 volumes). With Ismail Engin (Haz./Hrsg.). Hamburg 2000 (Volume 1) and 2001 (Volume 2 and 3). German Orient Institute. Messages. 59-61.
• Developments and contradictions - On the 80th anniversary of Turkey - Selected contributions 1999–2003 . Hamburg 2003 (German Orient Institute. Communications. 70)
• Yazidis. An old religious community between tradition and modernity. Ed. Hamburg 2004 (German Orient Institute. Communications. 71)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erhard Franz: Brief Vita (his website)