Karl Weule

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Prof. Dr. Karl Weule
Karl Weule grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Johann Conrad Karl Weule (born February 29, 1864 in Alt-Wallmoden near Goslar , † April 19, 1926 in Leipzig ) was a German geographer , university professor and ethnologist . In addition to his research, he was also known as the author of popular works on geography and ethnology .

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Weule was the son of a wood turner and attended the secondary school in Hildesheim. In 1885 and 1886 he attended lectures in geography and African studies with Hermann Wagner at the University of Göttingen . In 1886 he went to the University of Leipzig to continue his training with Friedrich Ratzel . Weule earned his doctorate in geography in 1891 with his treatise morphology of the flat coasts . Then he prepared in Berlin for a foreign service in the German colonies . Here, through his contact with Ferdinand von Richthofen, he joined the African-Oceanic department of the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin as a research assistant . Here he dealt with the inventory of the collection.

In 1899 he became a lecturer and second director of the Grassimuseum in Leipzig, in whose systematic development he participated. In 1901 Weule became an associate professor for ethnology and prehistory and in 1920 full professor for ethnology at the same position. In 1906/07 he undertook a research trip to German East Africa in the area on the Makonde Plateau in order to conduct ethnographic field research there. In the same year, on his return, he was appointed director of the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig . In 1914 a university seminar was set up in the museum and then a state research institute for ethnology was set up. In 1917 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1920 he was appointed Germany's first full professor of ethnology. From 1921 he was spokesman for the ethnographic department of the German Anthropological Society and in 1925 spokesman for the entire association.

After the aforementioned geographical treatise, all other writings were devoted to the subject of ethnography.

Fonts (selection)

  • Exploring the earth's surface. Third volume in the book series Universe and Mankind. Berlin-Leipzig-Vienna 1902.
  • Negro life in East Africa. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1908, OCLC 9227722 .
  • Scientific results of my ethnographic research trip to the southeast of German East Africa. Berlin 1908, digitized
  • The culture of the cultureless. Kosmos, Stuttgart 1910, OCLC 765353 .
  • Elements of human culture. Kosmos, Stuttgart 1910, OCLC 780071976 .
  • Guide to ethnology. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig / Vienna 1912, OCLC 9822449 .
  • The primitive society and its life support. Kosmos, Stuttgart 1912, OCLC 1204341 .
  • From notch stick to alphabet. Original forms of writing. Kosmos, Stuttgart 1915, OCLC 1629349 .
  • The war in the depths of humanity. Franckh, Stuttgart 1916, OCLC 72665507 .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Karl Weule
  2. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 650-651 .
  3. ^ State-Saxon Research Institute (1914–1936) at ethno.gko.uni-leipzig.de, accessed on November 15, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Weule, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weule, Karl Johann Konrad (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt-Wallmoden near Goslar
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1926
Place of death Leipzig