Gernot Prunner

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Gernot Prunner (born August 23, 1935 in Vienna ; † February 3, 2002 ) was an Austrian ethnologist .

Life

Prunner was born in Vienna in 1935. There he passed his Matura in 1953 and then studied ethnology, Romance studies, English, Chinese, Japanese and Sanskrit at the University of Vienna . Wilhelm Koppers , Robert Heine-Geldern , Karl Jettmar and Josef Haekel were among his teachers. In 1961/62 he studied at the Institute for Ethnology and Archeology of the National Taiwan University in Taipei and then moved to Mainz , where he studied ethnology, sinology and comparative cultural studies from 1963. He received his doctorate in 1964 on the Hainan collection of the Ethnological Museum Vienna.

After completing his studies, Prunner accepted an assistant position in the department for cultural and social anthropology of the newly founded South Asia Institute in Heidelberg. From 1965 he was head of the department for South and Southeast Asia at the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg . From 1984 Prunner was deputy director of the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg. He retired in 1990 for health reasons.

Fonts (selection)

  • East Asian playing cards. Exhibition, Hamburg Museum of Ethnology and Prehistory, December 10, 1969–19. January 1970; Übersee-Museum Bremen, January 23–31. March 1970; German Playing Cards Museum in Bielefeld, April 12–30. June 1970. Bielefeld 1969, OCLC 2667947 .
  • Handicrafts from Guizhou (China) . Hamburg 1983, OCLC 320150185 .
  • Symbolism of Chinese Universism. Panel tape . Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7772-8642-7 .
  • Paper gods from China. Popular prints with religious content from the holdings of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover, Ethnology Department, March 26th – 12th. July 1987 . Hamburg 1987, OCLC 75180517 .

Web links

  • Gernot Prunner on germananthropology.com (English)
  • Hartmut Walravens: Gernot Prunner in memoriam (August 23, 1935 - February 3, 2002). In: Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Issue 171–172 (2002), pp. 5–19 ( PDF; 584 kB )
personal data
SURNAME Prunner, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2002