Leonhard Adam

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Leonhard Adam (born December 16, 1891 in Berlin ; died September 9, 1960 in Bonn ) was a German legal scholar and ethnologist . Together with Hermann Trimborn , he edited the textbook on ethnology (1958), which was considered a standard work for a long time. His investigation of tribal organization and chiefdom of the Wakash tribes made him famous in ethnological circles .

Life

He was the son of the businessman Meinhardt Adam and studied law, economics , sinology and ethnology at the universities of Berlin and Greifswald . After the legal exam he worked first as a lawyer, then as a district and district judge in Berlin and conducted his first ethnological investigations. From 1918 he published the journal for comparative law, including ethnological legal research .

After the seizure of power, he was dismissed on April 7, 1933 against the applicable law . The new rulers accused him of being a Jew and thus a person with fewer rights. In 1938 Adam was robbed of his magazine as part of an aryanization process . The magazine was published from 1939 on behalf of the Academy for German Law by Axel von Freytagh-Loringhoven . In 1939 Adam emigrated to the United Kingdom , where he published the book Primitive art in 1940 . In the same year he was deported to Australia as an enemy alien . There he was able to continue his ethnological research from 1942 and was also a lecturer at the University of Melbourne .

In 1957 Adam returned to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fonts (selection)

  • Tribal organization and chieftainship of the Wakash tribes , (= special reprint from the magazine for comparative jurisprudence, XXXV. Volume, 3rd / 3rd issue, pp. 105–430). Stuttgart: Enke, 1919
  • High Asian Art , Stuttgart: Strecker & Schröder, 1923
  • Buddha statues: origin and forms of the Buddha figure , Stuttgart: Strecker u. Schröder, 1925
  • (with Gerhard Schacher): The founding share of the French stock corporation: its economic importance and its legal nature; together with the text and translation of the French law of January 23, 1929. Stuttgart: Enke, 1930
  • with Erich Schultz-Ewerth , Ed .: The native law: Morals and customary rights of the natives of the former German colonies in Africa and the South Seas. Collected on behalf of the colonial administration at the time by officials and missionaries of the colonies, arranged and commented on by former colonial officials, ethnologists and lawyers , two volumes, Stuttgart: Strecker and Schröder, 1929–1930
    • Volume 1 East Africa
    • Volume 2 Togo, Cameroon, South West Africa, the South Seas Colonies
  • Primitive art , Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1940
  • with Hermann Trimborn, Ed .: Textbook of Ethnology. 3., reworked. Edition. - Stuttgart: Enke, 1958.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adam had already designed this book in 1936, the title, structure and parts of the content come from him. In the first edition (1937) he was not named as the editor because of his Jewish origin, but his essays were published in the book. In the second edition (1939) there is no reference to him. That only changed from the third edition (1958). See: Bernhard Großfeld (Ed.): Rechtsvergleicher. Misunderstood, forgotten, suppressed. Münster: Lit, 2000, p. 160 f.
  2. ↑ Horst Göppinger : Jurists of Jewish descent in the "Third Reich". Disenfranchisement and persecution. 2nd Edition. Munich: CH Beck, 1990, ISBN 3-406-33902-6 , p. 384.
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1960
Place of death Bonn