Karl Rudolf Wernhart

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Karl Rudolf Wernhart (born August 14, 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian ethnologist and cultural anthropologist . Most recently he was professor at the Institute for Ethnology at the University of Vienna .

Along with Walter Hirschberg and Christian F. Feest, Wernhart is considered one of the founders of ethnographic history in Vienna. He was also jointly responsible for the expansion of the scientific offer at the institute in collaboration with Manfred Kremser and Wittigo Keller with research into the Afro-Caribbean diaspora .

Scientific career

Wernhart studied ethnology and modern history, prehistory and early history, anthropology and folklore at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1967. He was admitted to university in 1971, also at the University of Vienna, where he has been professor of ethnology at the Institute for Ethnology, Cultural and Social Anthropology since 1979 and was Rector from 1989 to 1991 and Vice-Rector from 1991 to 1994.

From 1978 to 1989 Wernhart held guest lectures at the University of Innsbruck and in 1986 he was a visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1991 he received an honorary doctorate from the Comenius University in Bratislava.

From 1985 to 2002 he was chairman of the Anthropological Society in Vienna .

Fonts (selection)

  • Christoph Carl Fernberger. The first Austrian globetrotter 1621–1628. , European publishing house, Vienna 1972.
  • People and culture on the islands under the winds, past and present: a contribution to ethno-history d. Society Islands, Central Polynesia. Ethnological publications; 1, Anthropological Society in Vienna, Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1974.
  • Fatafée Paulaho, the 36th Tui Tonga (1740-1784). Sociopolitical portrait of a Tongan ruler at the end of the 18th century. Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1977
  • Effects of civilization activities and proselytizing in the cultures of the autochthons using the example of the Society Islands. In: Viennese contributions to the history of modern times, Volume 7, Europeanization of the Earth ?, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-486-50531-9
  • The King of Hawaii in Vienna 1881 The visit of the Polynesian ruler Kalakaua. Böhlau, Vienna 1987, ISBN 978-3-205-05039-1 .
  • Ethnohistory in Vienna. Ed. Herodot in Rader-Verl., Aachen 1987, ISBN 3-922868-80-0 .
  • Historical ethnology today: Lectures and discussion of the symposium from 25.-27. March 1982 in Vienna. Ferdinand Berger & Sons, Horn 1985
  • with Walter Dostal : We and the Others - Islam, Literature and Migration. WUV University Press. Vienna 1999.
  • with Werner Zips (Hrsg.): Ethnohistorie - Reconstruction and cultural criticism. An introduction. Vienna: Promedia, 2001.
  • Ethnic Religions - Universal Elements of the Religious. Topos, Kevelaer 2004, ISBN 3-7867-8545-7 .
  • Austria and the Pacific: Exploring the Cultures of Oceania and Australia. (Pacific Dossier; 5) Austrian South Pacific Society, Vienna 2008

Wernhart is also on the scientific advisory board of the Ethnographic-Archaeological Journal .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for cultural and social anthropology: To the history of the institute on univie
  2. Wolfgang Kraus (using contributions by Philipp Budka, Marie-France Chevron, Thomas Fillitz, Elke Mader, Gertraud Seiser and Werner Zips): Obituary of the Institute for Cultural & Social Anthropology. (PDF; 55 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 21, 2013 ; Retrieved March 17, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.univie.ac.at
  3. Ludwig Huber (ed.): How the new comes into the world: phase transitions in nature and culture. WUV, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85114-549-6 . P. 330.
  4. ^ A b Karl Rudolf Wernhart in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  5. see web link ksa.univie.ac.at.
  6. ^ Works by Karl R. Wernhart . ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: buch-info.org, accessed on March 11, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / buch-info.org