Max Schmidt (ethnologist)

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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 ".

Photography by Max Schmidt (with the Kayabi in Brazil)

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
  • 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

Web links

Commons : Max Schmidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Indian Studies in Central Brazil .
personal data
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