Ewald Volhard

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Franz Jakob Ewald Volhard (born May 25, 1900 in Gießen ; † February 1945 in Hasselt , Kleve district) was a German ethnologist and Germanist .

Live and act

Volhard was a son of the internist and nephrologist Franz Volhard . In his broad-based work cannibalism (included in the studies on cultural studies ) it is spoken of as a universal phenomenon. To date, it is the most authoritative and most extensive anthropological study on this subject.

Volhard studied first in Heidelberg and then in Marburg together with his friend Max Kommerell and through him got into the George circle . He was written in 1927 at the University of Halle on The Individual and Society in Fr. M. Klinger's novels. PhD.

For the Institute for Cultural Morphology (today: Frobenius Institute ) of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , he took part in research expeditions that examined rock art: 1934–35 to Transjordan and the Libyan Desert , 1934 to southern France and eastern Spain.

Volhard served in the Wehrmacht in World War II and died shortly before the end of the war in 1945.

His son is the lawyer and patron Rüdiger Volhard .

Fonts

  • The individual and society in Ms. Klinger's novels. Part I: Preconditions; II. Part I. Chapter: Enlightenment . Niemeyer Verlag, Halle / Saale 1927 (also dissertation, University of Halle / Saale 1927)
  • FM Klinger's philosophical novels. The individual and society. Niemeyer Verlag, Halle / Saale 1930 (Hermaea; 27).
  • Between Hegel and Nietzsche. The aesthetician Friedrich Theodor Vischer. Klostermann Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1932.
  • Cannibalism (studies on cultural studies; 5 vol.). Strecker and Schröder Publishing House, Stuttgart 1939 (plus habilitation thesis, University of Berlin 1940)
  • Leo Frobenius . In: Paideuma , Vol. 1 (1938), pp. 41-44.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the German National Library comments on this: "Should fully. Publ. Ud T .: The struggle for a basic behavior of the individual, for example, Ges. In d. philos. novels FM Klingers in: "Hermaea" "  DNB 571347533 ; but it never seems to have come to that.
  2. ↑ Johnson Reprint, New York, published a reprint of it in 1968.

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SURNAME Volhard, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH February 1945
Place of death Hasselt , Kleve district