Eva Lips

Gravestone of Eva Lips and her husband Julius Lips in the Leipzig Südfriedhof

Eva Lips (born February 6, 1906 in Leipzig ; † July 24, 1988 ibid) was a German professor of ethnology and comparative legal sociology . She was particularly committed to conveying a realistic image of the North American Indians .

Career

Eva Lips was born as the second child of the Leipzig publisher Ernst Wiegandt . As a schoolgirl she read book manuscripts that her father had received for publication. During this time she also learned to proofread texts. On January 7, 1923, her first self-written text appeared in the Leipziger Tageblatt with the title “Die Seeleder Kakteen” . Eva Lips had a preference for cacti . In 1923 she reached the upper secondary school at a girls' school. There she was particularly interested in German and modern foreign languages.

On September 15, 1925, she married Julius Lips , who studied psychology, ethnology and law in Leipzig . After the National Socialists came to power, Julius Lips resigned from his teaching and museum post and emigrated to France in 1934, where Eva followed her husband soon afterwards. They left Europe together in May 1934 and emigrated to the USA , because for them and her husband, an SPD member, the thought that undisguised racism would dominate ethnology in the future was unbearable. At the turn of 1933/34, German citizenship was withdrawn. The couple's assets were confiscated and their house in Cologne-Klettenberg was expropriated. Also around the turn of 1933/34, Julius Lips received a dispatch from New York calling him professor of ethnology and law at Columbia University . It was there that Eva Lips met Indians for the first time, who then determined their research. In October 1948 Eva and Julius Lips returned to Leipzig, where Julius took over the professorship for ethnology and comparative legal sociology at the University of Leipzig . After Julius Lips died in January 1950 at the age of 54, Eva Lips took over the management of the institute in April 1950, which was renamed the Julius Lips Institute for Ethnology and Comparative Legal Sociology.

Lips received his doctorate on March 3, 1951 with a dissertation on "Migration and economic forms of the Ojibwa Indians". Even before her doctorate, she taught. In 1954 Eva Lips completed her habilitation and was granted the license to teach ethnology and comparative legal sociology. Her habilitation thesis was published in 1956 under the title “The rice harvest of the Ojibwa Indians. Economy and law of a harvest people ". She was appointed full professor in 1960 and professor with a chair in 1966 . In the same year she retired .

In 1987 Eva Lips was made an honorary member of the German Society for Ethnology . The following year she died on June 24th.

Works (selection)

• "What Hitler did to us: a personal record of the Third Reich", London, Michael Joseph Ltd., 1938. In the USA as "Savage symphony", New York, Random House, 1938.
• The rice harvest of the Ojibwa Indians: Economy and law of a harvest people , Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1956.
• The Indian Book , Leipzig, FA Brockhaus, 1956.
• Wisdom between ice and jungle. On the humor of primitive peoples , Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1959.
• Not only in the prairie ...: On the diversity of the North American Indians , Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1974.
• They are all called Indians , Der Kinderbuchverlag Berlin, 1975, 240 pages.

Evidence: WorldCat (www.WorldCat.org, records nos. 17779749 and 39381617)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friderun Bodeit (editor), I have to be able to give myself completely - women in Leipzig , Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-7304-0256-0 , p. 222
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Lips in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eva Lips in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig