Paul Ehrenreich

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Paul Ehrenreich

Paul Ehrenreich (born December 27, 1855 in Berlin , † April 4, 1914 in Berlin) was a German anthropologist and ethnologist .

Life

Paul Ehrenreich studied medicine and natural sciences in Berlin , Heidelberg University and Würzburg . In Heidelberg he was a member of the Corps Suevia .

He became interested in anthropological research from an early age. In 1884/85 he traveled to eastern Brazil, took part in the second German Xingu expedition under Karl von den Steinen to Brazilian Indian tribes of the Mato Grosso from 1887 to 1888 , and made an important contribution to the research of the Bororó Indians on the São Lourenço River and various tribes the Tocantins and Araguaia rivers .

His main area of ​​research was comparative myth research , with a focus on illuminating the meaning of the stars in myths . His research contributions, such as B. The myths and legends of the South American indigenous peoples , mostly published in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie , in the latter case as a supplement.

Ehrenreich was a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory .

tomb

Paul Ehrenreich died in Berlin in 1914 at the age of 58. His final resting place is in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . The wall grave complex made of yellow clinker with sandstone facings and red-brown inscription panels is only partially preserved.

Quote

“The heroes are also not necessarily humans, but just as often animals and half-beings that only gradually take on human form, such as Abaangui the Guarayo, Keri and Kame among the Bakairi. The thermorphism is most pronounced in North America, where the coyote, mink, raven, hare appear as heroes and demiurges. Incidentally, all these hero myths, sprung from the same ideas, show great kinship all over the world.
Of course, the same phenomenon can be personified in every mythical circle, such as simply anthropo-theromorphic or used entirely as an inanimate object moved from the outside. "( The myths and legends of the South American indigenous peoples , p. 24)

Works

  • Botocudes . 1887.
  • Materials on language studies of Brazil . 1894.
  • Contributions to the ethnology of Brazil . 1891.
  • The myths and legends of the indigenous South American peoples and their relationships with those of North America and the ancient world . Asher, Berlin 1905 (supplement to the journal for ethnology ). Digitized
  • Gods and saviors . 1906.
  • General mythology and its ethnological basis . 1910.
  • The sun in myth . Hinrichs, Leipzig 1915.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 751.
personal data
SURNAME Ehrenreich, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist, ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1914
Place of death Berlin