Jürgen Christoph Winter

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Jürgen Christoph Winter (* 1938 in Insterburg ) is a German Africanist .

Life

At the end of the Second World War, his family had to flee East Prussia and settled in a small village in Lower Saxony. There he attended elementary school until the family moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1950 . He studied law at the University of Cologne and also took courses in Arabic and African languages. He made African Studies his second major with Oswin Köhler , Helmut Petri and Eno Beuchelt .

In 1963 he passed the first state examination in law . In addition, he deepened his knowledge of African languages ​​(e.g. Swahili) and took part in a field research project in Tanzania in 1964/65. During this time, Winter collected a lot of data, e.g. B. on the customary laws of several ethnic groups. From 1966 to 1969 he studied at the Institute for Social Anthropology in Oxford, where Edward E. Evans-Pritchard was one of his teachers. He earned a Bachelor of Letters from Oxford with a thesis on the work of Bruno Gutmann .

After returning to Germany , Winter received his doctorate in law in 1970. In the following years he continued to research in Africa (e.g. in Kilimanjaro). In 1975 Winter accepted an assistantship at the Institute for African Studies in Cologne and finally began to write his habilitation thesis , which he completed in 1978. In 1979 Winter took over a professorship for African studies at the Institute for Ethnology in Bayreuth . He retired in 2003.

Fonts (selection)

  • The tort law of liability in the law of the Hehe. Attempt to codify and analyze the development of an East African customary law on the basis of the verdicts (1931–1964) of the Native / Local Courts . Munich 1971, OCLC 72305971 .
  • Self-actualization in an African society. Its impact upon the development of christianity among the people of Old Moshi, Kilimanjaro during the period from 1870 to 1970 . 1977, OCLC 632931351 .
  • Bruno Gutmann, 1876–1966. A German approach to social anthropology . Oxford 1979, ISBN 0-19-823180-6 .

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