Josef Schramm (geographer)

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Josef Schramm (born October 14, 1919 in Kula , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; † March 18, 2001 in Innsbruck , Austria ) was an Austrian university professor , geographer and bacteriologist .

life and work

In addition to German as his mother tongue, Schramm also spoke Hungarian as a school and everyday language. He also learned Croatian and French at the Jesuit school in Bosnian Travnik . He graduated from the German teacher training college in Vrbas in 1941 . He then worked as a primary school teacher in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He had to break off his geography studies at the University of Skopje in 1941 because he was called up as an interpreter for the Wehrmacht after the Balkan campaign . He then studied geography, history, ethnology and comparative philology at the universities of Vienna and Berlin, temporarily exempted from service.

In 1946 he received his doctorate from the University of Innsbruck with a thesis on the cultural landscape design of the Batschka and completed his habilitation in 1968 at the University of Salzburg . His scientific area of ​​specialization was geography with special consideration of ethnographic methods . In 1962 he became the scientific director of the Institute for Social Cooperation in Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1967 he worked as a geographer at the University of Salzburg. In addition to his work on the cultural landscape of the Danube Swabian settlement areas and in south-eastern Central Europe , his cultural-geographic work on African and overseas countries was particularly important.

After studying tropical medicine in Paris , he worked as a bacteriologist at the Efok Hospital in Cameroon . Schramm was employed in Africa for a total of 14 years. After many research trips, which also took him to West Asia and South America , he published 31 books and around 300 essays in German and French. He researched the life of indigenous tribes and was able to record a large number of fairy tales, fables, legends and black African songs and translate them into French and German. He was a professor at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar in Senegal . In 1975 he was appointed professor and head of the “Regional Studies and Developing Countries” department at the University of Salzburg. He was a member of the Académie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer in Paris.

Publications (selection)

  • Western Sahara. Geographical consideration of a multiracial social order of the Western Saharan cattle breeders in contact with modern industrial society . Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1969
  • Cameroon. German Africa Society, Bonn 1970
  • Central Africa: Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo / Brazzaville, Zaïre. People and homeland, Buchenhain before Munich 1972, ISBN 3-87936-034-0
  • Interdenominational from Pannonia: Religious geography from the Danube Swabian area. Pannonia-Verlag, Freilassing 1978

literature

  • Michael Lehmann: The Danube Swabian and its intellectual profile. 1969, p. 294.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Penz: Hans Kinzl (1898-1979) and the Institute for Geography of the University of Innsbruck. Thoughts and memories on his hundredth birthday , p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Schramm, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian university professor, bacteriologist and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Kula , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2001
Place of death Innsbruck , Austria