Jürgen Zwernemann

Jürgen Zwernemann (* 1929 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German ethnologist .

Life

From 1950 he studied ethnology and English and geography as minor subjects in Mainz . At the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies, Adolf Friedrich , Hermann Baumann and Erika Sulzmann were among his teachers. After studying for a year in Hamburg in 1953, Zwernemann returned to Mainz and obtained his doctorate in 1954 . Then he became an assistant at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology in Hamburg and took part in field research to West Africa. In 1958 he went to Munich and worked in both the state library and the university library. In 1960 he became director of the Africa department at the renowned Linden Museum . After completing his habilitation in Tübingen in 1966 , he became director of the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg in 1971 . He retired in 1992.

Fonts (selection)

• The earth in the imagination and cult practices of the Sudanese peoples . Berlin 1968, OCLC 164465357 .
• One hundred years of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology . Hamburg 1980, OCLC 901345381 .
• Studies on the culture of the Moba (North Togo) . Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89645-205-3 .
• Ethnological Africa research 60 years ago. At the Kassena and Nuna in Burkina Faso and Ghana . Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-944193-02-1 .

literature

• Technology application. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zwernemann on completing his 65th year of life. Matreier conversations . Graz 1996, ISBN 3-85333-022-3 .
• as editor Wulf Köpke: Main topics. Ethnography of Africa, ethnographic photography. Festschrift for Jürgen Zwernemann on his 65th birthday . Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-86097-460-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Zwernemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• germananthropology.com