Helga-Maria Pacher

Helga-Maria Pacher , more rarely Helga Maria Pacher (born November 1, 1922 in Graz ; † August 21, 1971 ), was an Austrian anthropologist .

Life

Helga-Maria Pacher was born on November 1st, 1922 in the Styrian capital Graz. There she initially studied biology at the University of Graz and later anthropology , zoology , botany and psychology at the University of Vienna . Before receiving her doctorate in 1946, she worked from 1944 to 1945 as a laboratory assistant at the Anthropological Institute of the University of Vienna. It was there that she worked from 1949 to 1950 under Professor Josef Weninger , who was also President of the Anthropological Society in Vienna at the time, as a second assistant.

From 1960 until her untimely death in 1971 she worked as a senior assistant at the Anthropological and Human Biological Institute.

She was a specialist for the Rudolf Pöch'sche Collection, the so-called Buschmann (skeleton) collection , which is now administered by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the Natural History Museum Vienna . The Austrian anthropologist Emilie Bondy-Horowitz (1897–1938) received her doctorate in 1925 with a dissertation on The R. Pöch'sche Collection of Skulls from German New Guinea . Entrusting the anthropological processing of the Buschmann (skeleton) collection took place against the will of Hella Pöch , Rudolf Pöch's widow and herself an anthropologist.

Pacher died on August 21, 1971 at the age of 48; details of her death are not known.

Works

• Biometric comparison of the population groups of St. Jakob im Rosenthal (Carinthia) and Marienfeld im Banat (Romania) , dissertation, 1946.
• Anthropometric comparison of two Central European population groups (St. Jakob im Rosenthal, Carinthia and Marienfeld, Romanian Banat) , 1952
• Anthropological investigations on the skeletons of the Rudolf Pöch'schen Buschmannsammlung (= Pöch's estate A, Volume 12), 1962

In collective works

• Maori skull. In: Mitteilungen der Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien / MAG , 1947, 33, pp. 73–77
• The problem around the term “Mediterranean race”. In. MAG , 1949, pp. 78-79
• Human history in the light of anthropological research. In: Österreichische Hochschulzeitung I / 10 , 1949, pp. 2–3

literature

• Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 2441–2442.
• Brigitte Fuchs : “Race”, “People”, Gender: Anthropological Discourses in Austria 1850–1960 . Campus Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-593-37249-5 , p. 358 (et al.) .
• Marius Turda and Paul Weindling : "Blood and Homeland": Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 . Central European University Press , Budapest 2006, ISBN 978-963-7326-81-3 , pp. 79 .
• Brigitte Fuchs: Pacher, Helga Maria. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 544f.
• Communications of the Anthropological Society in Vienna , Volume 141, Festschrift for Karl Rudolf Wernhart , published by the Anthropological Society in Vienna, Vienna 2011, various pages