Hans Fischer (ethnologist)

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Hans Fischer (born December 14, 1932 in Grottkau / Upper Silesia ; † August 16, 2019 ) was a German ethnologist . From 1967 to 1998 he was full professor of ethnology at the Institute for Ethnology at the University of Hamburg , from 1967 to 1971 he was head of the Museum of Ethnology Hamburg and from 1973 to 1975 he was chairman of the German Society for Ethnology .

Life

From 1951 to 1956 Hans Fischer studied ethnology with Franz Termer in Hamburg . After completing his doctorate with a thesis on “Sound Devices in Oceania” (publ. 1958), he initially worked as a volunteer at the Hamburg Ethnographic Museum. 1958 followed a first field research stay in New Guinea , which was later followed by others. Since 1959 assistant to Thomas Barthel in Tübingen, he completed his habilitation there in 1963. In 1967 Hans Fischer was appointed director of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology and at the same time appointed to the chair of the Ethnological Institute of the University of Hamburg . Because of the increasing workload, he renounced the management of the Völkerkundemuseum in 1971 and concentrated entirely on his tasks at the university. Until his retirement in 1998, Hans Fischer built the Hamburg institute into one of the largest ethnological teaching and research facilities in Germany.

Works

As a result of his field research with the Wampar on the middle course of the Markham River in the Morobe province of today's Papua New Guinea , which he began in 1958 and which stretched over four decades, Hans Fischer was able to produce one of the most complete documentation on traditional ways of life as well as cultural, social and economic ones Present change of a Melanesian tribal society in German-speaking ethnology. Ethnomusicology , anthropology of religion and History of ethnology are other specialties of the subject to which he made important contributions. His studies on the relationship between ethnology and German colonialism as well as ethnology and National Socialism are considered pioneering work. His research on the Wampar is being continued by his wife Bettina Beer , who has been a professor for ethnology at the University of Lucerne since 2008.

bibliography

  • Watut. Notes on the culture of a Melanesian tribe in northeast New Guinea (= cultural history research . 10, ZDB -ID 525525-9 ). Limbach, Braunschweig 1963.
  • Studies of Soul Concepts in Oceania. Klaus Renner, Munich 1965, (Tübingen, University, habilitation paper, July 20, 1963).
  • The Hamburg South Seas Expedition . About ethnography and colonialism. Syndicate, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-8108-0187-9 .
  • as editor: materials on the culture of the Wampar, Papua New Guinea. 8 volumes. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1992–2002;
    • Volume 1: as an author: White and Wild. First contacts and beginnings of the mission. 1992, ISBN 3-496-00437-1 ;
    • Volume 2: as an author: ghosts and people. Myths, fairy tales and new stories. 1994, ISBN 3-496-02546-8 ;
    • Volume 3: as an author: The household of Darius. About the ethnography of households. 1996, ISBN 3-496-02591-3 ;
    • Volume 4: as an author with Walter Schulze and Hartmut Lang: Birth and Death. Ethnodemographic problems, methods and results. 1997, ISBN 3-496-02615-4 ;
    • Volume 5: as an author: minutes, posters and comics. Field research and written documents. 1998, ISBN 3-496-02637-5 ;
    • Volume 6: Rita Kramp: Family planning in Gabensis. Fertility change from an ethnographic point of view. 1999, ISBN 3-496-02684-7 (also: Hamburg, University, dissertation, 1998);
    • Volume 7: as an author: words and change. Ethnographic approaches through language. 2000, ISBN 3-496-02693-6 ;
    • Volume 8: as an author: graves, crosses and inscriptions. a cemetery in New Guinea. 2002, ISBN 3-496-02679-0 .
  • Marginal figures in ethnology. Scholars and amateurs, swindlers and dreamers (= Kulturanalysen. Vol. 5). Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-496-02748-7 .
  • Ghost eats child. 26 versions of a story. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-496-02789-4 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Hans Fischer: Company obituaries. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 4, 2019, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Bettina Beer, Doris Bacalzo, Hans Fischer: Research focus Wampar , University of Lucerne
  3. ↑ Michael Schnegg, Julia Pauli, Bettina Beer, Erdmute Alber: Relatives Today: Positions, Results and Perspectives , Reimer, Berlin 2010, p. 30.
  4. ↑ CV: Prof. Dr. Bettina Beer , University of Lucerne, Ethnological Seminar. Retrieved January 4, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Grottkau / Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 16th August 2019