Irene Hilgers-Hesse

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Irene Hilgers-Hesse (* 1905 in Cologne ; † 2004 ) was a German ethnologist .

Life

From 1924 she studied art history in Cologne, from 1929 ethnology, Austronesian languages ​​and archeology at the University of Hamburg . After her doctorate in 1932 The representation of the human figure in round sculptures in Neumecklenburg (then Bismarck Archipelago, New Ireland) she worked in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum after 1945 , from 1953 also (unpaid) at the University of Cologne , from the winter semester 1956/1957 Malay , then also Bahasa Indonesia and Austronesian philology. The habilitation took place in 1963 with contributions to the development history of Bahasa Indonesia with special consideration of some syntactic questions .

Fonts (selection)

  • The representation of the human figure in round sculptures in Neumecklenburg . Cologne 1933, OCLC 15025979 .
  • Indonesian phrasebook . Heidelberg 1964, OCLC 9041671 .
  • Contributions to the history of the development of Bahasa Indonesia with special consideration of some syntactic questions . Heidelberg 1965, OCLC 251845817 .
  • with Otto Karow : Indonesian-German dictionary. Kamus bahasa Indonesia-Djerman . Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-447-02617-0 .

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