Gottfried Kurth

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Gottfried Kurth (born June 25, 1912 in Dresden ; † 1990 ) was a German anthropologist and university professor .

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Gottfried Kurth was the son of the district court president Paul Kurth and his wife Johanna, née Anhalt. After finishing his school career, he studied anthropology and history at the University of Jena from 1931 to 1936 . During his studies he joined the NSDAP in early March 1932 . In 1936/38 he was promoted to Dr. rer. nat is doing her doctorate with a dissertation on race and status in four Thuringian villages. This was followed by further excavations in Thuringian villages.

After the war ended, he moved to the University of Göttingen in 1946 and received a grant from the DFG from 1954 to 1961, for which he worked as a freelance researcher. In 1955/56 he took part in the Jericho excavation on behalf of the British School of Archeology. From 1958 Kurth held teaching positions at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 1960 he became a private lecturer at the Institute for Human Biology, Department of Anthropology. From 1966 he was a permanent professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig and from 1967 scientific advisor and professor. He retired in 1977.

His research areas were paleanthropology. Population Biology and History. He was the author of numerous specialist publications.

Fonts (selection)

  • Race and status in four Thuringian villages, Fischer , Jena 1938 (published as Deutsche Rassenkunde. Vol. 17, also Math.-Naturwiss. Diss. At the University of Jena 1938)
  • Volume 15 of the Fischer Lexikon: Anthropologie , Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt a. M .; Hamburg 1961 (together with Gerhard Heberer and Ilse Schwidetzky )
  • Human population history: e. Combination of biolog. Capacity u. human performance , Academic Publishing Company Athenaion Hachfeld, Frankfurt / M. 1976 (From: Handbuch der Biologie. Vol. 9. - Bibliography, pp. 556–562.)
  • Anthropology and population biology: Contribution to the preliminary and Early history , association d. Sponsor d. Inst. For pre and Early history d. Rhine. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ., Bonn 1980 (together with Olav Röhrer-Ertl, belongs to: Bonner Hefte zur Prehistory; No. 21)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Who is who? , Volume 29, Schmidt-Römhild, 1990, p. 791
  2. ↑ a b Contributions from population research: Festschrift for Hermann Schubnell, Boldt-Verlag, 1983, p. 589
  3. ↑ Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual , Berlin 2006, p. 423.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 353
personal data
SURNAME Kurth, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1990