Hermann Trimborn

Hermann Trimborn (born May 15, 1901 in Bonn ; † August 29, 1986 ibid) was a German Americanist and ethnologist . In particular, he researched Indian cultures in South America and taught from 1933 to 1936 as a professor in Madrid and from 1936 to his retirement in 1969 at the University of Bonn . There, in 1948, he founded the Department of Ethnology, today's Department of Ancient American Studies and Ethnology, and the seminary's archeological-ethnographic teaching and study collection, today's BASA Museum (Bonner America Collection) . Together with Leonhard Adam , he edited the textbook on ethnology , which for a long time was considered a standard work. In addition, he was co-editor of the ethnological book series Kulturgeschichtliche Forschungen .

Trimborn did research in the field of Quechua literature . In the 1930s, he discovered the long time unnoticed, in Quechua written Huarochirí manuscript from the late 16th century at the Royal Library in Madrid again, translated it into German and published it in 1939 in a bilingual edition. The work was severely hampered by the Spanish Civil War . After the majority of the edition had been destroyed by the Second World War , an expanded and revised edition was published in 1967, developed together with Antje Kelm .

Publications

Hermann Trimborn: Demons and Magic in the Inca Empire. Sources and research on the history of ethnology, Leipzig 1939.
Hermann Trimborn, Antje Kelm: Gods and Cults in Huarochirí . Source works on the ancient history of America recorded in the languages of the natives, Volume 8. Verlag Mann, Berlin 1967.
H. Rimborn: Radiometric data on the cultural history of ancient Peru . Natural Sciences 62 (1975) 476-481.

Web links

Literature by and about Hermann Trimborn in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Department of Ancient American Studies and Ethnology at the University of Bonn
↑ BASA Museum (Bonn America Collection)
↑ Leonhard Adam, who had designed this book, was not named as the editor in the first edition (1937) because of his Jewish origin, but essays by him were published in the book. In the second edition (1939) there is no reference to him. That only changed from the third edition (1958). See: Bernhard Großfeld (ed.): Rechtsvergleicher. Missed, forgotten, repressed , Münster: Lit, 2000, p. 160 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Trimborn, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Americanist, ethnologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 15, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn
DATE OF DEATH	August 29, 1986
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Department of Ancient American Studies and Ethnology at the University of Bonn

[2] BASA Museum (Bonn America Collection)

[3] Leonhard Adam, who had designed this book, was not named as the editor in the first edition (1937) because of his Jewish origin, but essays by him were published in the book. In the second edition (1939) there is no reference to him. That only changed from the third edition (1958). See: Bernhard Großfeld (ed.): Rechtsvergleicher. Missed, forgotten, repressed , Münster: Lit, 2000, p. 160 f.