Franz Caspar (ethnologist)

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Franz Caspar (born September 17, 1916 in Rapperswil ; † April 14, 1977 in Strobl ), actually Anton Franz Caspar , was a Swiss ethnologist and children's book author . He became known in Switzerland through the children's book "Fridolin - A funny story for children". He founded the Swiss Youth Book Institute (SJI) .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in 1936, he studied literature, languages, sociology and history at the universities of Freiburg, Bern and Zurich. He interrupted his studies to do an apprenticeship at the Benziger publishing house in Zurich and Einsiedeln. In 1941 he emigrated to Buenos Aires . From 1942 to 1947 he worked as a development aid worker in the Convendo Indian reduction group in Bolivia . In 1948 he went on a private expedition to the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso for several months and came into contact with the indigenous population of Tupari . After he returned to Switzerland in 1949, he wrote his dissertation in ethnology, psychology and political science in Hamburg from 1950 to 1953. In 1952 he published the book “Alone among Indians. My one-man expedition to the Tupari Indians on Matto-grosso ». In 1956 he moved to Zurich and worked for a book publisher and in opinion research. Franz Caspar founded the Swiss Youth Book Institute (SJI) in 1967 and merged it with the Johanna Spyri Archive. He was also a founding member of the International Research Association for Children's and Youth Literature.

Caspar translated the book “Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse” by Ursula Moray Williams into German and published it in 1938 under the title “Das Rösslein Hü: His funny and dangerous adventures”. He wrote a sequel to this book, which hit bookshops in 1953. In 1959 he published his children's book "Fridolin: a funny story for children", which is about a dachshund and his collar.

Franz Caspar was married and had four children. He died during a meeting of the youth literature working group on April 13, 1977 in Strobl, Austria.

Works

Children's literature

  • (Translator by) Ursula Moray Williams: The little horse Hü: His funny and dangerous adventures . Benziger & Co. AG, Einsiedeln, Cologne, 1938
  • The little horse Hü goes out into the world again. Benziger-Verlag, Einsiedeln, Zurich, Cologne, 1953
  • Fridolin: a fun story for children. Sauerländer-Verlag, Aarau and Frankfurt, 1959
  • Johanna Spyri, youth writer <1827-1901>. Switzerland. Youth Book Institute, Johanna Spyri Archive, Zurich, 1968

Ethnological literature

  • Alone among Indios - My one-man expedition to the Tupari Indians on Matto Grosso , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1952 (alternate title or later edition: Tupari: among Indios in the jungle of Brazil )
  • The Tuparí: An Indian tribe in western Brazil. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1975, ISBN 3-11-003756-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CASPAR dossier Franz Anton, 1916, Ethnologue . Swiss Federal Archives. Signature: E2200.67 # 1977/79 # 3 *
  2. ^ Obituary in Tages-Anzeiger, April 16, 1977
  3. ^ A b Caspar Franz on Bibliomedia. Retrieved September 6, 2015
  4. ↑ Interview with Ms. Caspar ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 6, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fridolin.juniorwebaward.ch
  5. ↑ Franz Caspar died . In. Tages-Anzeiger, April 16, 1977, p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Caspar, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caspar, Anton Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Rapperswil SG
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1977
Place of death Strobl