Hanns J. Prem

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Hanns J. Prem (born January 18, 1941 in Vienna ; † October 8, 2014 in Geneva ) was an Austrian ethnologist specializing in ancient American studies .

Life

Hanns J. Prem studied ethnology, ancient American studies, prehistory and early history as well as physical anthropology at the Free University of Berlin from 1959 to 1961 and at the University of Hamburg from 1961 to 1966 . Here he received his doctorate in 1966 and was a research assistant from 1967. Since 1968 he has taught in Munich , where he completed his habilitation in 1977 . In 1980 he became professor of ethnology in Munich, 1983 at the University of Göttingen and since 1988 at the University of Bonn , where Prem retired in 2003 . From 1970 to 1974 Prem took part in excavations in Puebla , Mexico and from 1982 to 2003 in Yucatán / Campeche .

From 1987 to 2002 Prem was a member of the Advisory Board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . He was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute . From 1981 to 1991 Prem was editor of Mexicon magazine . He was also a member of the editorial boards of the magazines Ancient Mesoamerica (Cambridge, Mass.), Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl (México, DF), Arqueología Mexicana (México, DF) and Temas Antropológicos (Mérida, Yuc.). Prem was on the scientific advisory board of the popular science journal Adventure Archeology, which was discontinued in 2007 . After his retirement he was, among other things, active as an honorary author in the German-language Wikipedia.

Prem was married to the ethnologist Ursula Dyckerhoff .

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SURNAME Prem, Hanns J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian old Americanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2014
Place of death Geneva