Hugo Kunike

Hugo Kunike (born March 2, 1887 in Hamburg , † 1945 ) was a German ethnologist , Americanist and linguist who is best known as the editor of fairy tale collections of the Aztecs , the North American Plains Indians and the peoples of Siberia .

Hugo Kunike, the son of a businessman, attended grammar school in Wandsbek and then studied ethnology, philosophy and comparative linguistics at the University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1912 from the University of Leipzig on the male child bed . From 1909 to 1919 he worked as a research assistant at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin , after which he did research in Berlin as a private scholar.

He translated excerpts from Bernardino de Sahagún's main work , the Historia de la Nueva España , into German.

Fonts (selection)

• The couvade or the so-called male child's bed . John, Hall a. S. 1912 (University of Leipzig, dissertation 1912).
• The phonetics of the Karaiá language (according to linguistic principles) . In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris NS Vol. 11, 1914, pp. 139-181 ( digitized version ).
• Jaguar and moon in the mythology of the Andean highlands . Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1915.
• Visnu, a moon god and American and Asian moon images . In: Carl Fries ; Hugo Kunike; Ernst Siecke : Four treatises (= Mythological Library Vol. 8, 4). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1916.
• Aztec tales based on the Spanish of the Sahagun . Spitzbogen-Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1922.
• North American moon tales . In: International Archive for Ethnography, Vol. 25, 1923, pp. 27–54.
• Prairie Indian tales, based on German and American sources . Axel Juncker Verlag, Berlin [approx. 1923].
  • Reprint of Indian fairy tales, based on American and German sources . and explained by H. Kunike. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-458-32464-X .
• On the banks of the Silver Stream. Japanese fairy tales . Selected by Dr. Hugo Kunike. The version of the present fairy tale comes from Dr. Franz Werner Schmidt. Franz Schneider, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna / Bern 1924.
• Star mythology on an ethnological basis. In: Hugo Kunike, Wilhelm Gundel : Basics of star belief (= world and man, episode 3). JA Barth, Leipzig 1927.
• Märchen aus Sibirien , edited by Hugo Kunike, book design by Max Thalmann ( The fairy tales of world literature , edited by Friedrich von der Leyen ). Diederichs, Jena 1940.

literature

• Who is it Our contemporaries. 10th edition, AL Degener, Berlin / Leipzig 1935.
• Gerdt Kutscher : Berlin as the center of research on ancient America . In: Jahrbuch Preußischer Kulturbesitz Vol. 4, 1967, p. 111.