Ferdinand Anders

Ferdinand Anders (born October 15, 1930 in Leopoldstadt , Vienna ) is an Austrian historian and ethnologist .

life and work

Ferdinand Anders was born in 1930 in Leopoldstadt in Vienna, where he also graduated from elementary school and grammar school (Matura June 1949), attended the state and federal teacher training institute and studied history and ethnology at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna while working . In December 1957 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. In his dissertation "The Mayan Pantheon" Anders dealt with the Mayan religion.

Between 1951 and 1990 Anders was active in the public school service (first compulsory school, later at the Pedagogical Academy of the Federal Government and the Archdiocese of Vienna ) and in public education (Catholic Academy in Vienna). Ferdinand Anders' academic teachers included Professors Wilhelm Koppers , Robert Heine-Geldern , Dominik Wölfel and Benedikt . As an ethnohistorian with a focus on Mesoamerica , Anders attaches particular importance to a universal historical approach that pays greater attention to the native point of view.

On April 12, 1968 the habilitation and the granting of the license to teach as a university lecturer for ethnology with special consideration of Mexican studies and ethno-history took place . Anders then worked intensively on the Codices selecti (Central American manuscripts), with the series Bibliotheca linguistica americana and published the series Artes americanae and Fontes rerum mexicanarum. Furthermore, Anders initiated the most comprehensive collection of primary sources for the Mexican-Central American region. He deciphered and published all Maya manuscripts for the first time, thereby proving that the Mexican manuscripts, which had been regarded as Aztec until then, were largely Mixtec. His standard work Das Pantheon der Maya is recognized in the Handbook of Middle American Indians as "well illustrated, comprehensive description and discussion of the religious-ritual of ancient and modern Mayance speaking groups". One of his students, Maarten Jansen , dean and professor of archeology at the University of Leiden , the Netherlands, described his teacher in a commemorative publication on the occasion of Anders' 60th birthday with the words: “With him I found the ability, which in my opinion is a criterion is by which one recognizes a good teacher: to see the various current endeavors of the individual sciences in a large historical framework. "

Another focus of Anders' research activities is the person of Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian von Habsburg (he supervised two dissertations in this context).

In addition, Anders published monographs on Alexander von Humboldt , Lukas Vischer , Eduard Mühlenpfordt , Moritz Rugendas , Eduard Seler , Manuel Orozco y Berra , Dominik Bilimek , Simon Leo Reinisch and Theobert Maler .

Anders was also active as a collector of manuscripts and figures ( muñecos ) made from paper made from amate (fig bast ) . In the continuation of his scientific studies on the natives of Central America, he dealt with the behavior of recent Indians and their relationship to official bodies.

In 1983 Anders organized the Lower Austrian provincial exhibition "Peru through the Millennia" at the Schallaburg , in 1988 he curated an exhibition about the Austrian by choice Johann Jakob von Tschudi , which was shown in Lower Austria and in Switzerland the following year. In the course of this work, Anders was able to discover the voice recordings of now extinct Brazilian Indian tribes by Johann Natterer in Basel, which were believed to have been lost due to the fire in the Hofburg in 1848 .

During the preparation of the exhibition Old Mexico: Mexican Magic Figures - Old Manuscripts Begin to Speak in Linz, Anders met Anton Watzl , who also accompanied him on a research trip to Uxmal and Palenque , Mexico , in 1989 and recorded his impressions in graphic form.

Anders also participated in exhibitions in Hardegg, Riegersburg, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Augsburg, Leiden, Essen, Schaffhausen, Vienna, Trieste and Munich.

In the 2001/02 winter semester, Anders ended his lectures at the University of Vienna in order to devote himself more intensively to his research and to supervise doctoral students.

Private

Ferdinand Anders is married, has three children and lives in Klosterneuburg near Vienna.

Awards

• Twice nomination as "Summer Fellow" by Harvard University
• Appointment as “Profesor Honorario de la Universidad Nacional 'Frederico Villareal'” in Peru
• Condecoración of a "Comendador of the Order of Merit 'Al Mérito por Servicios Distinguidos'"
• Awarded the " Aztec Eagle Order " by the Mexican government
• June 24, 2003: Award of the professional title “Professor” by the Austrian Ministry of Science

Works

• As the first to the land of the Maya, Universum, born 1952, pp. 243–46, Vienna 1952
• The Maya pantheon. Vienna, phil. Diss. 1957
• The Mayan Pantheon (resume). Wiener Völkerkundliche Mitteilungen, vol. 5, pp. 58–60, Vienna 1957
• Alfred M. Tozzer: Chichen Itza and its Cenote of Sacrifice A Comparative Study of Contemporaneous Maya and Toltecn; Memories of the Peabody Museum Cambridge. USA 1957
• Girolamo Benzoni : Life and work: Prospectus to: GioB .: La Historia del Mondo Nuevo: Early journeys and seafaring in original reports. Volume 2: Graz 1962
• Girolamo Benzoni: La Historia del Mondo Nuevo (facsimile edition) Introduction Ferdinand Anders: Graz 1962
• The Mayan pantheon; VIII + 433, 30 plates. Graz 1963
• Dominik Josef Wölfel (1888–1963). Wiener Völkerkundliche Mitteilungen, 11th vol. Pp. 1–5, Vienna 1963
• The paper figures of Otomi from San Pablito, Puenla, Central America, Mexico - peoples and cultures. Special exhibition Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna 1964. pp. 41–44, Vienna 1964
• Excavations of Iximché. A contribution to the art of the Cakchiquel Maya. Wiener Völkerkundliche Mitteilungen, Vol. 12, pp. 73–83, Vienna 1964
• Mexican spring work of the colonial era (results of studies in libraries, archives and museums in Spain, Italy and Germany). Sep .: indicator of phil-hist. Class d. Austrian Academy of Sciences; Born 1965, pp. 9-11, Graz 1965
• Latin American folk art. Schweizer Volkskunde, vol. 55, pp. 90–94; Basel 1965
• To the bibliography of the "Historia del Mondo Nuovo" by Girolamo Benzoni. ADEVA-Mitteilungen, Issue 4, March 1965, pp. 9–11, Graz 1965
• Ethnological and cultural historical source value for illustrations from the 16th to 19th centuries. ADEVA-Mitteilungen, Issue 4, March 1965, pp. 9–11, Graz 1965
• The Archivium Canarium Wölfel - planning and content. ADEVA-Mitteilungen, No. 6, October 1965, pp. 15–24, Graz 1965
• The pen box of the Ambras art chamber. Yearbook of the Art History Collections in Vienna, Volume 61, p. 119.132, Vienna 1965
• Base hall. Travels in North America. Preface, III-XXV, 12 III. Graz 1965
• The Archivium Canarium Wölfel. In: Monumenta linguae Canariae. Canarian language monuments. A study of the prehistory and early history of White Africa. Author biography. S. VII-XI, Graz 1965
• Lukas Vischer (1780–1840) artist, traveler, collector; A contribution to the ethnology of the United States of America and to the archeology and folklore of Mexico. By Ferdinand Anders, Margerete Pfister-Burkhalter and Christian F. Feest , In: Völkerkundliche Abhandlungen Volume 2, Kommissionsverlag Münstermann-Druck; Hanover 1967
• Word and subject index for Eduard Seler, Collected treatises on American linguistics and antiquity (including bio-bibliography). Graz 1967
• The Madrid Maya manuscript (Codex Tro-Cortesianus). ADEVA-Mitteilungen 11, March 1967, pp. 15–22, Graz 1967
• Codex Tro-Cortesianus (Codex Madrid). Museo de América, Vol VIII, Graz 1967
• Old American cabaret. Die Reisehochschule, Zurich No. 5. pp. 13–15, Zurich 1967
• Arte plumario. Mexican feather mosaic work in European museums and collections. Vienna phil. Habil. 1967
• Codex Peresianus (Codex Paris). Bibliothéque Nationale Paris, introduction and summary. Codices Selecti, Vol. IX, Graz 1968
• Eduard Mühlenpfordt and Mexico. ADEVA-Mitteilungen, issue 19, June 1969, pp. 15-18, Graz 1969
• Eduard Mühlenpfordt: Attempt at a faithful description of the Republic of Mexico: Introduction to the reprint. Graz 1969
• Marginalia on Alexander von Humboldt . Vocere der Libro / der Bücherbrief, Heft 7, pp. 15-18, México 1969
• Codex Magliabechiano. Cl. XIII. 3rd BR Bibl. Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Introduction, Graz 1970
• (together with Detlef Heikamp ) Mexican antiquities from southern German art chambers. Pantheon, Vol. 28, May / June 1970, pp. 205-220; Munich 1970
• Old Mexico and Europe in the light of the history of ideas. Ethnological magazine Zurich, I / 1970, S 11–40, Bern 1970
• Los Artes Menores. Tesoros de México - Arte Plumario y de Mosaico. Artes de México, No. 137. Ano 17; México 1971
• Diary entries by Simon Leo Reinisch Journey to Mexico 1867. Transcription by Dr. F. Anders, Austria. National Library; Vienna 1971
• Fray Diego Lòpez de Cogolludo. Los Tres Siglos de las Dominiaciòn Espanola en Yucatan or sea Historia de this Provincia. Comments on the reprint of the second edition Campeche 1842 / Mérida 1845. pp. IV – VIII, Graz 1971
• The coronation of the guacho king. A poem by Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of the later "Emperor of Mexico". Almogaren II, pp. 257-259, Hallein 1971
• (together with Detlef Heikamp) Mexico and the Medici. Florence 1972
• Codex Vaticanus 3773 (Codex Vaticanus B) Bibl. Apostolica Vaticana. Introduction summary, resume. Codices Selecti, Codices Selecti, Vol XXXVI, Graz 1972
• (together with Knell, Heiner, Sperlich) Ullstein Lexicon of Art; Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna 1972
• Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico (1832–1867). Catalog articles, exhibition Hardegg, Summer 1974, pp. 87–129, 176 ff, Hardegg-Vienna 1974
• Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and the Segundo Imperio Mexicano. Hardegger Contributions to Maximilian Research 1, Hardegg 1974
• The "spiritual conquest" of Mexico. Rise, prosperity and end of the Indian mission (1524–1572). Festschrift Zerries, Ethnologische Zeitschrift Zürich, I / 1974, pp. 23–32; Zurich 1974
• In Memoriam Ernst Mengin, ADEVA-Mitteilungen, Heft 40, 1974, pp. 19-21; Graz 1974
• Archduke Ferdinand Max (1832–1867), Emperor of Mexico. Scientific endeavors / religious orders / coins and medals / philately. Hardegger Contributions, Vol. 1, p. 43; Vlg.Enzenhofer, Hardegg-Vienna 1975
• Arts and Crafts of Ancient Mexico; Kroon-Voordracht. Stichting Nederlands Museum voor Anthropologie en Prehistorie. Amsterdam, April 4th 1975, Amsterdam 1975
• Codex Dresdensis. Saxon State Library Dresden, Mscr. Dresd, R 310. The Dresden Maya manuscript: Codicological description. Commentary pp. 43–93, panels pp. 95–131; Codices selecti, Vol, LIV, Graz 1975
• Mexican Magic Figures, From the FA Collection, A special exhibition by the Nö. State Museum, Riegersburg Castle Nö. June – October 1976, catalog 30 pages: Vienna 1976
• (together with Maarten Jansen) The Vienna pre-Columbian Codices Manuscripti, 2nd year 1975, issue 1, pp. 10–15; Vienna 1976
• Has the Maya handwriting been deciphered? Ethnologia Americana. July / August 1976, No. 74, pp. 707f, 13th year, issue 2, Düsseldorf 1976
• Mayan pottery and sculpture from Mexico. Manuel Barbachano Ponce Collection. Exhibition report, Vienna, Museum of Ethnology, Pantheon, Munich, 1977
• (Co-editor) Bruno Thomas, Collected Writings on Historical Arms. 2 volumes, 1748 pp. (Introduction, layout, index), Graz 1977
• The Montezuma Crown. Letters from Austria, 1/1978, pp. 16-18, Vienna 1978
• The old Mexican feather shield in Vienna. In: Archiv für Völkerkunde, Ed .: from the association “Friends of Ethnology”, Vol. 32; Vienna 1978
• The funeral celebrations for Emperor Charles V in Augsburg and Mexico. Exhibition “World in Transition” - Augsburg between Renaissance and Baroque. Pp. 541-543; (Catalog No. 959-961). Augsburg 1979
• Yucatan, The "Indios Barbaros" and Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. Utopia and Reality in the “Segundo Imperio Mexicano” In: Archiv für Völkerkunde, 33rd vol., Pp. 44–60; Vienna 1979
• 1954–1979 Municipality of Klosterneuburg 25 years independent again. 144 p .; Klosterneuburg 1979
• Mexican Magic Figures, for the special exhibition on the occasion of the colloquium on Mexico in Erlangen, December 1977. Latin America Studies, 6: Economy and social awareness in Mexico since the colonial era, pp. 217–225; Munich 1980
• The "Historia del Mondo Nueco" by Girolamo Benzoni and its continued work to this day. Latin America Studies, 7: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador. Economy, society and history; Pp. 43-50; Munich 1980
• Augsburg funeral weapons and the "Tumolo Imperial" of Charles V in New Spain. Economic forces and routes. In: Festschrift for Hermann Kellenbenz, Vol. 5, pp. 637–663; Nuremberg-Stuttgart 1981
• The shooting of Maximilian of Mexico at the Cerro de las Campanas in Querètaro, July 19, 1867. Zinn Club, Annual Report 2, pp. 54–63; Vienna 1981
• Nuremberg and the Vienna area - similarities and their contribution to history. Official journal of the municipality of Klosterneuburg, culture supplement No. 199, 3/1981. Klosterneuburg 1981
• (together with Klaus Eggert) Maximilian of Mexico. Archduke and Emperor: 112 pp., No. Pressehaus, St. Pölten 1982
• Largest Peru show since 1958. Lower Austrian Perspektiven, issue 1/1983, pp. 3–6; St. Pölten 1983
• Peru through the millennia (preliminary report) Nope. Kulturberichte, March 1983, pp. 1-3; Vienna 1983
• Peru through the millennia. Art and culture in the land of the Inca. Catalog of the nope. Special exhibition 1983, Schloss Schallaburg (catalog of the Nö. Landesmuseum, new series no. 133, coordination of the contributions, plan of the exhibition, pp. 1–6, catalog section)
• Our home: Peru through the millennia, booklet to the Nö. State exhibition 1983, Schallaburg Castle; Vienna 1983
• Peru through the millennia. Art and culture in the land of the Inca; Parnass, III, No. 3, pp. 76f; Linz 1983
• Peru at Vienna's Westbahnhof: The replica of a Chullpa by Sillustani; Nope. Culture reports, June / July 1983, 5; Vienna 1983
• Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). The "Humboldt of the pencil" and Peru. Old and Modern Art, No. 88, vol. 28, pp. 24–27; Vienna 1983
• Peru through the millennia. Art and culture in the land of the Inca. Catalog of the Peru exhibition 1984, Villa Hügel, Essen Recklinghausen 1984 (main part like 62, supplements and additions)
• Peru through the millennia. Youth booklet for the Peru Exhibition 1984, Villa Hügel; Essen 1984
• Peru through the millennia. Art and culture in the land of the Inca. Catalog of the Peru exhibition 1984, Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen. Recklinghausen 1984
• Johann Jakob von Tschudi. Researcher - traveler - diplomat. 19 S. Schaffhausen 1984
• The age of the conquest and us. For the 500th birthday of Hernàn Cortés. Annual report 1983–1985: Austrian Tin Club, pp. 4–25: Vienna 1985
• In the land of the Inca. Utopias and reality; Austrian Tin Club; Special issue 2, 64 S; Vienna 1985
• (together with Marteen Jansen) Old Mexico: Mexican magic figures - old manuscripts begin to speak. Nordico-Linz, catalog for the exhibition; No. 43; Linz 1986
• The Second Mexican Empire: Attempts at Consolidation (1864–1866): In: Massimiliano von Trieste nach Mexico, catalog pp. 101–103; Trieste 1986
• Austrian scientists and artists in the service of Emperor Maximilian. In: Massimiliano from Trieste to Mexico, catalog pp. 105–108; Trieste 1986 (German like 76)
• Maximilian's gardens. Special exhibition in the Hietzing district museum. October – December 1987; 32 p .; Vienna 1987
• Simon Leo Reinisch - His path in life. The "father of Egyptology and African studies in Vienna" as a pioneer of Mexican studies. In: Leo Reinisch - Werk und Erbe. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Meeting Reports, 492nd Vol., Pp. 9–36; Vienna 1987
• Louis Baudin , The Life of the Inca. The Andean region on the eve of the Spanish conquest. (Introduction to the new edition with a picture and explanations, such as additions); Manesse, Zurich 1987 ( Manesse Library of World History )
• Codez Zouche-Nuttall. British Museum London. Codices Selecti LXXXI V 87; (Foreword pp. 11–16); Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 1987
• (together with Dieter Eisterer) The Habsburgs as gardeners and botanists. Catalog of the Austrian Horticultural Museum; Vienna 1988
• (together with Marteen Jansen) Script and book in ancient Mexico. 302 p .; Academic Printing and Publishing Institute Graz 1988
• ? Haze o No Haze? The expressiveness of Mexican picture writing. Festschrift Benedikt Hartmann. 58 p., Leiden 1988
• Los codices mexicanos como fuentes históricas ayer y hoy: un compendo critico. La visiòn India. Musiro, pp. 435-443, Leiden 1989
• Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and the Segunde Imperio Mexicano. (= Hardegger Contributions to Maximilian Research Volume 1)., Hardegg, self-published, 1992
• The Mexican Codex Literature and its Editions, self-published, Klosterneuburg, 1998
• Los tesoros de Moctezuma: Utopía y realidad; Museum of Ethnology, Vienna 2001
• The treasures of Montezuma. Utopia and reality. With a contribution by Peter Kann. Vienna, Museum of Ethnology, 2001
• Maximilian and Charlotte of Mexico - Contributions to their history, self-published, Klosterneuburg 2003
• From Schönbrunn and Miramar to Mexico; Academic printing and publishing company; Graz 2009
• The Indian image in utopias and clichés (1492–1850), self-published, Klosterneuburg 2012
• Maximilian of Mexico: The Dream of Ruling, contribution to the exhibition catalog, Hofmobiliendepot, Vienna 2013

Articles in daily newspapers (a selection)

• The Mayan script - deciphered again? In: Die Presse, March 13, 1976
• Maximilian of Mexico had fantastic building plans: Dream of a “Herrenchiemsee” on the island of Lacroma, In: Die Presse, Spektrum 23./24. August 1980
• Maxing and Miramar: The palace buildings of Maximilian of Mexico and their models. In: Die Presse, Spektrum 29./30. November 1986
• Moctecuma never wore “his” feather crown; Legends about the jewelry in the ethnological museum; In: Die Presse, Spektrum 12./13. December 1987
• Maximilian of Mexico in Artstetten; New rooms and impressions in the special exhibition; In: Die Presse, June 27, 1988

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anders, Ferdinand: The Mayan Pantheon. Vienna, phil. Diss. 1957
2. ↑ Wauchope, Robert. (gen. ed.) Handbook of Middle American Indians. Austin, Univ. of Texas Press, 1964-1976. 16 vols. Cloth, d / j
3. ↑ Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Univ. Doz. Ferdinand Anders, October 15, 1990, self-published, Vienna