Erhard Schlesier

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Erhard Schlesier (born July 10, 1926 in Chemnitz ; † August 6, 2018 in Sandhausen ) was a German ethnologist . He was a professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Erhard Schlesier was born in Chemnitz in 1926, where he spent his childhood and youth. As a minor, he was forced to join the Wehrmacht in the last period of World War II and became a prisoner of war. In July 1945 he was released from captivity and worked for a short time on a farm. In 1946 he graduated from high school. Schlesier applied to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen to become a sports teacher, but was rejected shortly after the war due to the shortage of university places. Instead, he had to keep himself afloat for another year with various jobs.

In 1947 he was accepted at the Catholic University of Eichstätt , where he first came into contact with anthropology through a book by Diedrich Westermann . Since geography and history were his favorite subjects at school, he applied again in Göttingen in 1948 , but this time at the Institute for Ethnology (now the Institute for Ethnology). After receiving his doctorate in 1951, he accepted an assistant position at the institute in Göttingen, where he completed his habilitation in 1956. He then became a private lecturer at the Göttingen Institute.

In 1961/62 Schlesier undertook his first research trip to New Guinea , where he carried out a field study. After his return he was offered a professorship at the University of Hamburg in the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology . At the same time he became director of the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg (today Museum am Rothenbaum).

From 1963 to the mid-1980s, Schlesier was an expert and wrote reports for the German Research Foundation . From 1967 to 1969 he was chairman of the German Society for Ethnology (today the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology ). In 1967 Schlesier returned to the University of Göttingen, where he held the Chair of Ethnology until 1991 . During that time, he made the institute internationally compatible, especially in German ocean studies .

Erhard Schlesier died on August 6, 2018 at the age of 92.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Me'Udana of the Milne Bay Province . Bathurst 1980, ISBN 0-7247-0220-2 .
  • Me'udana. The social life . Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-496-00533-5 .
  • An ethnographic collection from Southeast New Guinea . Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-88694-160-4 .
  • Working materials and notes on cultural change in Me'udana, MBP, Papua New Guinea . Goettingen 1991, OCLC 475350310 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Erhard Schlesier. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen- Public Relations: Prof. Dr. Erhard Schlesier - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schlesier, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2018
Place of death Sandhausen