Fritz Graebner
Robert Fritz Graebner (born March 4, 1877 in Berlin ; † July 13, 1934 there ) was a German ethnologist .
Life
His oldest brother was Paul Graebner . After studying history at the University of Marburg , he worked at the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin from 1899 to 1906 , mainly on the Oceania region . In 1906 he moved to the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne . During the First World War he was invited to a congress in Australia and interned there until the end of the war, where he continued to research while in captivity. In 1921 he became a professor at the University of Bonn . From 1925 to 1928 he was the director of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. In 1926 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Cologne. A stroke in 1926 worsened his health, so that he had to give up his job in the following years.
In 1896 he became a member of the Philological Historical Society, the later Marburg Burschenschaft Rheinfranken .
effect
Graebner, with his publication from 1911 - Method of Ethnology - is considered to be the founder of the cultural-historical method in ethnology. On this basis and based on the concept of diffusionism , he and Bernhard Ankermann further developed the culture group theory introduced by Leo Frobenius .
Works
- Method of ethnology . Winter, Heidelberg 1911 ( cultural history library ). Digitized
- Cultures and cultural histories in Oceania . In: Journal of Ethnology . Volume 37, 1905, pp. 28-53.
- The primitive worldview . Ernst Reinhardt, Munich 1924 ( history of philosophy in individual presentations ).
literature
- Julius E. Lips : Fritz Graebner: March 4, 1877 to July 13, 1934 . In: American Anthropologist . Volume 37, No. 2, 1935, pp. 320-326.
- Martin Heydrich: Graebner, Robert Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 706 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Paul Readers : Fritz Graebner - An appreciation for the 100th birthday on March 4, 1977 , in: Anthropos, Vol. 72, H. 1./2. (1977), pp. 1-55
Web links
- Short biography at: http://www.haben.rheinfranken.de/
- Literature by and about Fritz Graebner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 155.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Graebner, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Graebner, Robert Fritz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1934 |
| Place of death | Berlin |