Erika Iglauer

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Erika Iglauer (born June 16, 1930 in Vienna ; † June 8, 2007 in Gumpoldskirchen ) was an Austrian ethnologist and executive secretary.

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Erika Iglauer was born in Vienna on June 16, 1930 as the daughter of the art ceramist Friedrich Iglauer and his wife Emilie, a commercial clerk. Since she was not allowed to attend a grammar school due to the political situation, Iglauer attended a secondary school in the 4th district of Vienna, Wieden . Subsequently, she completed the two-year commercial business school on the Wieden and, thanks to a scholarship, was able to take the commercial Matura at a commercial academy . She then attended a secondary school for blue-collar workers, where she graduated in 1959, before studying Japanese studies and sociology at the University of Vienna . After seven semesters, she changed her field of study to ethnology and folklore as a minor and received her doctorate in 1973 under Professors Walter Hirschberg and Josef Haekel . Iglauer had already aimed to study after completing her school education, but could not begin due to the death of her father in 1947, whereupon she began to work for an electro-ceramic company after completing her commercial training .

From 1948 she worked as a commercial clerk in the central office of Wienerberger Baustoffindustrie AG , where she was promoted to executive secretary to the technical director. After he was replaced, she worked as a group leader in the company's purchasing department and continued to work at Wienerberger after completing her doctorate until she retired. As a long-term employee, she developed a concept for a museum for and about the Wienerberger company and devoted her time to organizing the realization of this museum. Her ethnological work mainly relates to her various trips to Africa , where she mainly wrote down her impressions, but did not publish them. In half-timbered works like the Wiener Ethnohistorische Blätter , Iglauer published a number of contributions, especially in the 1970s. In 1974 she published the folklore book Bricks - Building Material of Our Life through the Ferdinand Berger & Sons publishing house .

On June 8, 2007, a few days before her 77th birthday, Iglauer died in Gumpoldskirchen in Lower Austria and was buried on June 19, 2007 in her parents' grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 66, row 31, number 43).

Fonts

  • Gold mining and gold trading in the Zimbabwe region in the Portuguese period from 1497–1840 . In: Wiener Ethnohistorische Blätter, Supplement 2 . 1973, DNB  790698013 .
  • South and South West African museums and their importance for ethno history . In: From Theory and Practice of Ethnohistory. Ceremony for Walter Hirschberg's 70th birthday. Dedicated by his students. In: Wiener Ethnologische Blätter, supplement 3 . 1974.
  • Bricks - the building material of our life . Berger Verlag , Vienna / Horn 1974.

literature

  • Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 2: I-O. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 1424–1425 ( PDF ).
  • Ilse Korotin, Nastasja Stupnicki (eds.): Biographies of important Austrian scientists. "Curiosity drives me to ask questions". Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20238-7 , p. 415.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erika Iglauer on the official website of Friedhöfe Wien, accessed on May 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Iglauer, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ethnologist and board secretary
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2007
Place of death Gumpoldskirchen