Max Schmidt (ethnologist)
Max Schmidt (born December 16, 1874 in Altona , † October 26, 1950 in Asunción ) was a German ethnologist and South America researcher .
Life
Max Schmidt was born as the son of Johann Georg Max Schmidt and initially studied law in Tübingen, Berlin and Kiel. He was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . After a brief activity at the district court of Blankenese (Holstein), he went to Berlin, where he attended lectures on ethnology from Karl von den Steinen and Eudard Seler . From 1899 to 1929 he worked at the State Museum of Ethnology in Berlin, first as a trainee, later as assistant director and from 1919 as head of the South America department. In 1916 he was awarded a Dr. Phil. PhD. In 1917 he received the venia legendi at the University of Berlin and was appointed professor. After his retirement in 1929, Schmidt emigrated to South America. At first he lived in Cuyabá , Brazil , but then moved to Paraguay, where from 1934 to 1946 he was head of the ethnological museum in Asunción, today's Museo Etnográfico " Andrés Barbero ".
In 1900/01 Schmidt traveled to the Rio Novo and the Schingú source area. He stayed in central Brazil for a long time among the Guató and Kuliseh Indians . There he made detailed studies of the customs and habits of these tribes.
Publications
- u. a .: The indigenous law [2:] Togo, Cameroon, South West Africa, the South Sea colonies. Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart 1930
- Art and Culture of Peru. Berlin (1929)
- Ethnology. Ullstein, Berlin 1924
- The material economy among primitive peoples. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1923
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Outline of ethnological economics. Enke, Stuttgart 1920–1921
- Vol. 1: The social organization of the human economy. 1920
- Vol. 2: The social economic process of mankind. 1921
- The Aruaken. A contribution to the problem of cultural dissemination. Reinhold, Leipzig 1916 (university thesis = dissertation) / Veit, Berlin 1917
- Indian studies in central Brazil. Experiences and ethnological results of a trip in the years 1900 to 1901. Reimer, Berlin 1905 digitized
literature
- María Susana Cipolletti: Schmidt, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 208 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Brockhaus Encyclopedia, 21st edition . Volume 24, 2006. ISBN 3765341452 , p. 363,
Web links
- Works by and about Max Schmidt in the German Digital Library
- Max Schmidt - English
- Sociedad Científica del Paraguay (section Reseña de cinco personalidades y padres-fundadores de la AIP , 2nd paragraph)
- SUB Goettingen
- Max Schmidt , Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendaju
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schmidt, Max |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ethnologist and South America researcher |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1874 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1950 |
Place of death | Asunción |