Jan Czekanowski

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Monument to Jan Czekanowski in Szczecin
Gravestone, Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw

Jan Czekanowski (born October 6, 1882 in Głuchów , Russian Empire , † July 20, 1965 in Stettin ) was a Polish anthropologist , ethnologist and Africa researcher .

Life

Czekanowski worked from 1905 to 1907 on behalf of Felix von Luschan at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin ; During this time he brought 109 skulls from the island of Busira in Lake Victoria ( German East Africa ) to Berlin, which probably come from the graves of high dignitaries of the Hayo. Between 1907 and 1909 he traveled to little or no known areas in Equatorial Africa in Europe and collected a large amount of anthropological and ethnographic material about this region.

Czekanowski represented the racist Hamite theory put forward by John Hanning Speke of the differences between the Tutsi and the Hutu .

Czekanowski affirmed the theory that the Karaites residing in Eastern Europe were not of Semitic, but predominantly of Turkic origin. This helped the Jewish community to be spared the persecution of the Jews in Germany. The Karaite Chassan Abraham Firkowitsch had a similar view of the origin of this community .

Czekanowski was buried in the Powązki cemetery in Warsaw . A memorial commemorates him in the place where he died, Stettin.

Works

  • Research in the Nile-Congo intermediate region
  • Stosunki narodowosciowowyznaniowe na Litwie i Russi , 1918
  • Anthropological contributions to the problem of Slavic-Finnish relations , 1925
  • Overview of anthropological work in Poland over the years 1913-14 - 1924-25 , 1925
  • Man in Time and Space , 1936
  • Rejection of obsolete methods , 1937
  • The racial structure of Silesia in the light of Polish and German research , 1937
  • Anthropological traces of the Goths in Poland , 1938
  • The ancient Slavs in the latest German anthropological literature , 1938
  • On the anthropology of North-East Europe , 1962

literature

  • Polish Explorers , Publisher: Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ISBN 83-89175-51-7 , page 18.

Web links

Commons : Jan Czekanowski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Looted graves and an unsolved criminal case. In: Deutschlandfunk. Retrieved September 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Alex Rühle : 25 years after the genocide in Rwanda. How the Germans turned the Tutsi and the Hutu into two different ethnic groups , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 6, 2019, p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Czekanowski, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish anthropologist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Głuchów (Grójec)
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1965
Place of death Szczecin