Hans Nevermann

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Hans Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Nevermann (born March 25, 1902 in Schwerin , † November 13, 1982 in Berlin ) was a German ethnologist , oceanist and travel writer . The South Seas and Southeast Asia were his main research area.

Life

The son of the post office clerk Willy Nevermann (1870–1954) and the merchant's daughter Ella Kentzler (1872–1947) studied ethnology , oriental languages and ancient history at the universities of Hamburg , Heidelberg and Munich from 1920 . During this time he became a member of the Christian student associations Hamburger Wingolf , Heidelberger Wingolf and Munich Wingolf. From 1922 he worked at the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg without pay . In 1924 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . With a contract for work, he later worked at the Ethnographic Museum in Berlin and then as an employee at the Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden . Since 1931 he had been the curator of the Oceania department at the Berlin Museum of Ethnology and headed it until his retirement.

In 1933/43 he undertook an expedition to Melanesia on which he visited Dutch New Guinea , New Caledonia , the Loyalty Islands and the New Hebrides . He collected around 3,100 objects, made sound recordings and conducted ethnological research as well as geographical and biological observations. In the process he discovered two previously unknown species of weaver bird .

In 1937 Nevermann was sent to Mecklenburg in order to redesign the display collection at the Rostock Museum of Ethnology and to give it a scientific profile. As an interpreter for Southeast Asian languages, he was drafted into military service in 1942.

Nevermann published an article on the Luf-Boot from the Ethnological Museum Berlin

In the autumn of 1945 he, who had not been a member of the NSDAP , was again appointed head of the South Seas Department of the Berlin Ethnographic Museum and also of the departments for Southeast Asia and India . In 1950 he turned down the offer of the management of the Überseemuseum Bremen .

Nevermann was honorary professor for comparative ethnology at the Free University of Berlin from 1951 and from 1951 to 1954 chairman and from 1954 to 1958 second chairman of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory , in whose re-establishment he was significantly involved and whose archive he prior to the War led. He retired in 1957, but lectured until 1969.

When processing the results of his own expedition and some of the results of the Hamburg South Sea Expedition 1908–1910 , he examined not only oral traditions and religions, but above all shipping, weaving , masks and secret societies. With summarizing presentations, including in Hugo Bernatzik's "Großer Völkerkunde" and in the "Fischer Lexikon Völkerkunde", he made ethnographic knowledge accessible to a larger audience. Some of his writings have been translated into several languages.

Fonts (selection)

  • Shipping in Oceania. Dissertation, Hamburg 1924.
  • South Sea Art. Eden, Hamburg 1933.
  • Masks and secret societies in Melanesia. Reimar Hobbing , Berlin 1933.
  • Indo-oceanic weaving. Friederichsen, de Gruyter & Co. Hamburg 1938.
  • Culture of the indigenous people. Athenaion, Potsdam 1939.
  • A visit to stone age people. Franckh, Stuttgart 1941.
  • Gods of the South Seas. Spemann, Stuttgart 1947.
  • The shipping of exotic peoples. Wigankow, Berlin 1949.

literature

  • Annelen Karge: The Rostock Ethnographic Museum - Colonial Spirit in the Hanseatic City. In: Rostocker Blitzlichter 1999, p. 215ff.
  • Nils Seethaler : Past, present and future of magazined ethnographic collections in Germany using the example of the former Rostock Ethnographic Museum. In: Announcements from the Museum Association in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2010. pp. 11–15.
  • Nils Seethaler: The ethnologist Hans Nevermann and his work - between the Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin and the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory (BGAEU). In: Mitteilungen der BGAEU, Volume 35, 2014, pp. 71–78.
  • Bernhard Zepernick: In memoriam Hans Nevermann. In: Communications from the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory . Rahden 6.1985, pp. 18-19. ISSN  0178-7896
  • Bernhard Zepernick: Hans Nevermann, life and work. In: Journal of Ethnology . Berlin 110.1985, ISSN  0044-2666 , pp. 1-42.
  • Bernhard Zepernick:  Nevermann, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 191 f. ( Digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Winkler: Vademekum Wingolfitikum , Wingolfsverlag, Wolfratshausen 1925, p. 169.
  2. ↑ Hans Nevermann: The agomes boat of the Museum of Ethnology . In: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Hrsg.): Berlin museums . 4th year, no. 3rd / 4th , 1954, p. 35-38 , JSTOR : 4238115 .
personal data
SURNAME Nevermann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nevermann, Hans Paul Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist, oceanist and travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1982
Place of death Berlin