Hugo Huber
Hugo Huber (SVD), (* 1919 in Häggenschwil ; † April 7, 2014 in Menzingen ) was a Swiss ethnologist .
Life
Huber attended high school in Einsiedeln and studied theology at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland) . In 1941 he entered the novitiate of the Steyler missionaries and was ordained a priest in 1945 . After that, he devoted himself with P. Wilhelm Schmidt of ethnology in Freiburg and London. In 1950 he received his doctorate with a thesis on death and survival in the faith of West African peoples. In 1951 he traveled to Ghana, where he conducted field research until 1957 and helped in pastoral care. During these years he wrote The Krobo: Traditional Social and Religious Life of a West African People.
From 1960 to 1989 Huber was Professor of Ethnology in Freiburg, from 1973 to 1977 he was President of the Swiss African Society and from 1977 to 1981 Chairman of the Swiss Ethnological Society . During these years Huber lived with the Steyler missionaries (in the former Froideville Anthropos Institute in Hauterive ); the house in Posieux was beneath him to an academic meeting. He held his farewell lecture on The Fool, Time and Death , based on the fact that transition times in traditional African societies are celebrated as times of fools because they mean “an anticipation of death”.
Afterwards Huber worked in various German- Swiss parishes; from 2005 he lived in the Marienburg house of the Steyler missionaries in Thal near Rheineck, from 2013 in Menzingen .
literature
- Rupert Moser , M.Th Zurron-Krummenacher: Professor Hugo Huber on his 60th birthday. BAB-Verlag , 1979, 4 pages.
- Joachim G. Piepke: "Obituary for Hugo Huber (1919-2014)". In: "Anthropos", Vol. 109, No. 2 (2014), pp. 613–617.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hugo Huber in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Father Hugo Huber SVD (1919-2014) - Entry on the website of the Steyler Missionaries, April 8, 2014
- Father Hugo Huber celebrated. Tagblatt Online, October 13, 2009
- In memory - Father Hugo Huber SDV, Menzingen. Freiburg News, April 26, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j The Steyler ethnologist Hugo Huber died after a long illness. Catholic International Press Agency , April 8, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huber, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss theologian and ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Häggenschwil |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 2014 |
| Place of death | Menzingen |