Hans Findeisen

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Hans Findeisen (born February 28, 1903 in Berlin ; † July 15, 1968 in Neuwied ) was a German ethnologist , religious scholar and linguist who specialized in North Asia and its peoples and religions, who researched classical shamanism .

biography

Hans Findeisen worked between 1922 and 1934 as a research assistant at the Museum of Ethnology . In 1926 he received his doctorate with his thesis Fishing in the Life of the Old Siberian Peoples . From 1934 to 1941 he taught as a lecturer at the seminar for Oriental languages ​​at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin . In 1937/38 Findeisen was a research assistant at the Research Institute for Cultural Morphology in Frankfurt am Main under Leo Frobenius and in 1948 he founded the Institute for Human Studies in Augsburg . His research focus was in northern Eurasia , among other things he dealt with the phenomenon of shamanism . Findeisen undertook field research a. a. in Krimtataren , wherein the seeds Finnish Lapland as well as the ketene at Jenissej in Central Siberia , where he 1927/28 a roll collection with ketischen, buryatic and Tungusian songs, fairy tales and stories for the Berlin phonogram archive recorded.

He was a lecturer in North Asian Ethnology , Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences and Corresponding Member of the Finnish-Ugric Society in Helsinki ( Finland ).

He also edited the series of treatises and essays from the Institute for Human and Human Studies , to which he made numerous contributions.

Institute for Human and Human Studies

The "Institute for Humans and Humanity" was a private research facility founded in 1949, whose director and apparently only employee was Hans Findeisen.

During the National Socialist period, after he lost his permanent position at the Museum für Völkerkunde , Findeisen tried twice in vain to obtain his habilitation.

After the war Findeisen first lived in Augsburg and worked there as a private scholar. In August 1961 he moved to Neuwied , where he continued his research. The topic of the institute publications was closely related to the scientific interests and personal sympathies and antipathies of Findeisen. With his death in 1968 the institute ceased to exist.

So far there is no information on the institute's funding. In comparison with other institutions of this kind (such as the Göttingen working group ) it can be assumed that Findeisen ran his business at his own expense. He tried to disseminate the institute's expenses for a fee. The prices fluctuated accordingly between DM 1.50 for a two-sided sheet and DM 15 for a larger typeface bound as a booklet.

Publications (selection)

  • Report on a trip to Finnish Lapland. Berlin, 1929.
  • Fishing in the life of the 'Old Siberian' tribes. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 28, Berlin 1929, pp. 1-73.
  • People in the world; The struggle for life of the peoples in the Old and New World, in the polar region, in the steppe and tropical forest . Preface: Sven Hedin. Plesken, Stuttgart 1934.
  • Humans and animals as love partners in the folk literary tradition of Northern Eurasia and the American Arctic, with special consideration of the swan woman story and its genesis. In: Treatises and essays from the Institute for Humans and Humanity. Augsburg 1956.
  • The animal as god, demon and ancestor: an investigation into the experience of the animal in ancient mankind . Franckh, Stuttgart 1956. (Kosmos ribbon; 209)
  • Shamanism: illustrated using the example of the obsession priests of northern Eurasian peoples. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1957. (Urban books; 28)
  • Documents of the primeval worldview of the peoples of Northern Eurasia: their myths, fairs and legends based primarily on Russian sources. compiled, edited and introduced by Hans Findeisen. Anthropological Publications, Oosterhout 1970. ( Studies and materials from the Institute for Human and Human Studies. 1)
  • Works on the ethnography of Siberia and folklore of Central Europe. = Beiya-ZhongOu-minsu-diaocha. The Orient Cultural Service, Taipei 1973. ( Asian Folkore and Social Life Monographs ; 51)

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 7th edition. 1950, pp. 464-465.
  • Susanne Ziegler: The wax cylinders of the Berlin phonogram archive. Ed .: Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 2006, p. 339.
  • Archive material in the Ethnological Museum Berlin: Correspondence and acquisition processes. Time: 1928–1934
  • Joachim Otto Habeck, Stephan Dudeck: Hans Findeisen's correspondence with the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg: Reconstruction of a precarious academic career // Announcements from the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory 2018. Vol. 39.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Janina Findeisen: "What use are the dead instruments that are teeming with our museums?" Ethnology and the beginning of auditory sound storage using the example of the phonographic collection of Hans Findeisen, Siberia 1927/28. In: Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, Vol. 55, 2009, pp. 179–199
  2. Joachim Otto Habeck, Stephan Dudeck: Hans Findeisens Korrespondenz with the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg: Reconstruction of a precarious academic career // Announcements of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory 2018. Vol. 39. pp. 82–86.
  3. Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1954. 8th edition. P. 518
  4. Findeisen, H. SI Rudenko and the Bashkirs: Analysis and criticism of a Soviet-Russian ethnographic monograph on a Turkic people in the Ural region. Neuwied 1963. pp. 4-10.