Karl Jettmar

Karl Jettmar (born August 8, 1918 in Vienna ; † March 28, 2002 ) was a versatile Austrian ethnologist , religious scholar and archaeologist .

The son of the Viennese painter Rudolf Jettmar received his doctorate in Vienna in 1941 ( The blacksmith in the Germanic area ). He later participated in the Austrian Himalaya Expedition (1958) . He taught in Vienna, Mainz and Heidelberg. In Heidelberg he was Professor of Ethnology at the University of Heidelberg . Since 1969 he was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

In the book series The Religions of Mankind by Kohlhammer Verlag, he contributed to three volumes: on the religions of Northern Europe and the American Arctic, the Hindu Kush and the pre-Islamic religions of Central Asia. In 1964, he published the volume The early steppe peoples in the book series Kunst der Welt by Holle Verlag . The Eurasian animal style: origins and social background .

literature

Hermann August Ludwig Degener , Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who . Volume 17. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973, p. 489.
Peter Snoy (ed.): Ethnology and history. Festschrift for Karl Jettmar (= contributions to South Asia research. Vol. 86). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-515-04104-4 .
Ulla Johansen : Karl Jettmar, 1918–2002. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Volume 127, Issue 2, 2002, pp. 133-138

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ "27. March "according to: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. P34641. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Karl Josef Jettmar. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 30, 2016 .
↑ With Ivar Paulson and Åke Hultkrantz : The religions of Northern Europe and the American Arctic (= The religions of mankind. Vol. 3). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962.
↑ Karl Jettmar: The religions of the Hindu Kush (= The religions of mankind. Vol. 4, 1). With contributions by Schuyler Jones and Max Klimburg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1975, ISBN 3-17-002092-7 .
↑ As editor with Ellen Kattner: The pre-Islamic religions of Central Asia (= The religions of mankind. Vol. 4, 3). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-011312-7 .

personal data
SURNAME	Jettmar, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian ethnologist, religious scholar and prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	March 28, 2002

[1] "27. March "according to: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. P34641. Retrieved March 31, 2014.

[2] Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Karl Josef Jettmar. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 30, 2016 .

[3] With Ivar Paulson and Åke Hultkrantz : The religions of Northern Europe and the American Arctic (= The religions of mankind. Vol. 3). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962.

[4] Karl Jettmar: The religions of the Hindu Kush (= The religions of mankind. Vol. 4, 1). With contributions by Schuyler Jones and Max Klimburg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1975, ISBN 3-17-002092-7 .

[5] As editor with Ellen Kattner: The pre-Islamic religions of Central Asia (= The religions of mankind. Vol. 4, 3). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-011312-7 .