Helmut Straube

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Helmut Straube (born May 6, 1923 in Neisse, Upper Silesia, today Nysa , † March 22, 1984 in Munich ) was a German ethnologist and Africanist .

After attending school in Dresden, Berlin, Göttingen and Munich, Straube was seriously wounded in the Second War . After a few months as a prisoner of war, he went to Wiesbaden and enrolled as a student at the University of Frankfurt am Main in the subjects of ethnology, geography and history. In 1952 he received his doctorate under the direction of Adolf Ellegard Jensen in ethnology with a thesis on African religion. Field studies followed from 1954 to 1956 in southwest Ethiopia . In 1967 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne with a paper on the Niloten .

Helmut Straube was a student of Leo Frobenius and was connected to cultural morphology . After completing his habilitation, he was head of the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1968 to 1984 . Between 1973 and 1974 there was renewed field research among Omotic and Cushitic speaking peoples. In 1976 he was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

The estate was edited by Hermann Amborn and others, including records of the Burji people .

Fonts

  • The animal disguises of the African primitive peoples. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1955.
  • West Cushite peoples of southern Ethiopia. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1963.
  • The position of the rainmaker and related functionaries in acephalous societies of South Sudan. (= Session reports. Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Year 1984, Issue 6), 1984, 23 pages, ISBN 3-7696-1533-6 .

From the estate:

  • Burji: Mountain farmers in Southwest Ethiopia - processing of Helmut Straube's field research estate
  • Hermann Amborn: Flexible by tradition. Burji in Ethiopia and Kenya . Using the notes of Helmut Straube. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-06083-7

literature

  • Leopold Kretzenbacher : Helmut Straube 6.5.1923–22.3.1984. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences , yearbook 1984, Munich 1984, pp. 232-233.

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personal data
SURNAME Straube, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Nysa
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1984
Place of death Munich