Otto Friedrich room
Otto Friedrich Raum (born April 29, 1903 in Moshi ; † May 21, 2002 in Langenbach ) was a German ethnologist.
Life
He attended the teachers' college in Schwabach and took the exams there. In 1934 he received a scholarship and moved to London to study ethnology and education at the London School of Economics (LSE). Bronislaw Malinowski, Raymond Firth and Audrey Richards were among his teachers. He completed his PhD on childhood in Chaga in 1938. Shortly before the end of World War II, Raum accepted a position as a teacher in Hermannsburg . In 1949 he was appointed professor in the Department for Education at the University College of Fort Hare . In 1960, Raum became chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the University College of Fort Hare and succeeded Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews . He retired in 1968 and eventually moved to Germany.
Fonts (selection)
- Dealing with Bantu . Nuremberg 1957, OCLC 248415314 .
- The African in the modern economy . Berlin 1961, OCLC 971387152 .
- The contribution of the Schutztruppe officers to the ethnology of German East Africa . Berlin 1988, OCLC 1068252747 .
- Chaga childhood. A description of indigenous education in an East African tribe . Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-89473-874-X .
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| SURNAME | Room, Otto Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Space, Otto; Room, Otto F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moshi |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 2002 |
| Place of death | Langenbach |