Hans-Joachim Paproth

Hans-Joachim Rüdiger Paproth (born March 4, 1942 in Königsberg / Ostpr. , † January 24, 2007 in Wangen im Allgäu ) was a German ethnologist .

Life

Hans-Joachim Paproth came from Königsberg in East Prussia. After the expulsion as a result of the Second World War , his family settled in Lower Saxony . There he attended elementary school in Markendorf, then the secondary school in Oer-Erkenschwick . From 1958 to 1961 he completed an apprenticeship as a publishing clerk in Recklinghausen and worked in this profession until 1968.

As a secondary school student, he made contact with national and international ethnologists. He had been a guest student at Uppsala University in Sweden since 1961 . In 1967 he passed his Abitur in Uppsala . A scholarship enabled him to study in Sweden, which he completed in 1976 with a dissertation on the bear ceremony. Until 1977 he worked as a lecturer at Uppsala University. In 1977 he moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he was appointed adjunct professor in 1980 and professor for life in 1982. In 1984 he was appointed to the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . His main research interests were shamanism , the ethnography of circumpolar and North American peoples, the history of religion , the history of ethnology and the rock art of prehistoric and contemporary cultures. After a brief serious illness, he died shortly before his 65th birthday in the hospital in Wangen.

The works of his students and friends appeared in the series "Völkerkundliche Arbeit" published by Holos-Verlag Bonn.

Publications (selection)

• En gammal jägarrit (= Skrifter utg. Av Religionshistoriska Institutions i Uppsala, Hum Fak, No. 2). Uppsala 1964.
• Approx. 30 articles on the ethnology of North and Central Asia in the Brockhaus-Enzyklopädie , Wiesbaden 1966 ff.
• with Taryô Ôbayashi: The Oroken Bear Festival on Sakhalin . In: Journal of Ethnology . Volume 91, Issue 2, Braunschweig 1967, pp. 211-236.
• The Ainu Bear Festival on Sakhalin . In: Rundschau für Menschen- und Menschheitskunde . Issue 1. Oosterhout 1967, pp. 34-43.
• About some bear cult objects of the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig (= yearbook of the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Volume 27.). Berlin 1970, pp. 320-351.
• Studies of the Bear Ceremony . Volume I: Bear hunting rites and bear festivals among the Tungus peoples . Uppsala 1976.
• with Bertram Turner: Hundred years of ethnology in German-speaking countries . In: Thomas Theye (ed.): The robbed shadow . Munich 1989, pp. 120-141.
• A Lappish shaman's drum . In: Munich contributions to ethnology. Festschrift László Vajda . Munich 1988, pp. 269-318.
• with Hitoshi Yamada: Ainu ornamentation . In: The Ainu. Portrait of a culture in Northern Japan . Munich 2002, pp. 58-75.
• Jörg Helbig: Hans-Joachim Paproth. March 4, 1942-24. January 2007. In: Münchner Contributions zur Völkerkunde 11, 2007, pp. 345–347.