Georg Friederici

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Carl Georg Eduard Friederici (born January 28, 1866 in Stettin , † April 15, 1947 in Ahrensburg ) was a German ethnologist and colonial historian .

Life

Friederici was the son of a Szczecin wine wholesaler. After graduating from high school in Dramburg , he began an officer career in the Prussian army . In 1893/94 he was given leave of absence to Spain and North Africa under position à la suite. In 1894/95 he was military attaché at the German embassy in Washington . In 1900/01 Friederici took part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China as a company commander . In September 1903 he left the army as a captain .

Friederici then studied history , geography and ethnology at the University of Tübingen , the University of Göttingen and the University of Leipzig , where he obtained a Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

In 1908/1909 Friederici took part in the expedition of the Regional Commission of the Reich Colonial Office under the direction of Karl Sapper for the geographical exploration of the islands of the northern Bismarck Archipelago . In 1909 he became the leader of the Natuna expedition . On behalf of the Imperial Colonial Office , he explored German New Guinea , the Bismarck Archipelago and the English and French colonies in the South Seas with the expedition steamship Natuna . Following this, he undertook another research trip in German and Dutch New Guinea in 1909/10 .

When the war broke out in 1914, he returned to the army, where he served as a battalion commander in Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 40. In 1921 he had to leave his adopted home Dorlisheim in Alsace and moved to Ahrensburg , where he worked in research until his death. From 1927 he was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1933 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1943 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . The University of Amsterdam awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1932. In 1935 he was awarded the Silver Leibniz Medal and in 1941 the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .

Fonts (selection)

  • Indians and Anglo-Americans Braunschweig 1900. (a study of indigenous treatment)
  • Mounted infantry in China. Berlin 1904.
  • A Contribution to Knowledge of the Tuamotu Islands. Leipzig 1911.
  • Contributions to the ethnology and linguistics of German New Guinea. Berlin 1912, Erg.-Heft 5, messages from the protected areas.
  • Investigations into a Melanesian hiking road. Berlin 1913, Erg.-Heft 7, communications from the protected areas.
  • A contribution to the knowledge of the defensive weapons of the Indonesians, South Sea peoples and Indians . Teubner, Leipzig and Berlin 1915.
  • Auxiliary dictionary for the Americanist . M. Niemeyer, Halle 1926.
  • The character of the discovery and conquest of America by the Europeans . 3 volumes, 1925–1936.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friederici Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), Volume I, p. 666
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 85.
  3. ↑ Georg Friderici obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file)
personal data
SURNAME Friederici, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friederici, Carl Georg Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and colonial historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1947
Place of death Ahrensburg