Paul Hambruch

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Paul Hambruch (born November 22, 1882 in Hamburg ; † June 25, 1933 there ) was a German ethnologist .

Hambruch grew up in Hamburg and attended the Johanneum , he studied chemistry and mathematics in Göttingen and anthropology, ethnology and geography in Berlin with Ferdinand von Richthofen and Felix von Luschan in 1907 he obtained his doctorate in Berlin on the Franz Emil collection acquired in 1904 by the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg Hellwig .

In the following years he worked on behalf of the Jaluit Society in Nauru to help combat a coconut palm disease.

Hambruch took part in the second year of the expedition from 1909 to 1910 in the Great Hamburg South Sea Expedition organized by Georg Thilenius . He was entrusted with the ethnographic studies of Micronesia, in particular Nauru and Pohnpei . Hambruch's work is still seen as the basis for research on Pohnpei's ruined city of Nan Madol .

He then became an employee of the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg and head of its South Seas department. Hambruch completed his habilitation in 1919/1920, from 1922 he worked as an associate professor for ethnology at the University of Hamburg .

His compilations of fairy tales from the South Seas made him known to a wider audience.

Fonts (selection)

  • Nauru. Results of the South Seas Expedition, 1908–1910. II, Ethnography: B. Micronesia, Volume 1: 1-2. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1914–15 ( Online 1 , 2 ).
  • Ponape. Results of the South Seas Expedition, 1908–1910. II, Ethnography: B. Micronesia, Volume 7: 1-3. Friederichsen, Hamburg 1932–1936.
    • Volume 1: General part: history, geography, language, natives, 1932 ( digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de )
    • Volume 2: Society and intellectual culture, economy and material culture Author: Hambruch, Paul; Eilers, Anneliese. Friederichsen, De Gruyter, Hamburg 1936.
    • Volume 3: The ruins. Ponapegeschichten, 1936 ( digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de )
  • Regional studies of Schleswig-Holstein, Heligoland and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Göschen, Leipzig 1912. ( Commons file )
  • The essence of culture doctrine. On the dispute over Leo Frobenius. Asmus, Hamburg 1924.
  • Oceanic bark fabrics. Stalling, Oldenburg 1926.
  • The errors and fantasies of Prof. Dr. Herman Wirth, Marburg, author of “Der Aufgang der Menschheit” and “Was ist deutsch?” Deutscher Polizei-Verlag, Lübeck 1931.
  • Polowat, Hok and Satowal. Half volume 2 of: Islands around Truk (Central Carolines East). Friederichsen, de Gruyter, Hamburg 1935.
  • Ifaluk, Aurepik, Faraulip, Sorol, Mogemog. Half volume 2 of: August Krämer: Zentralkarolinen. Friederichsen, de Gruyter, Hamburg 1938.

Editorships (selection) :

  • James F. O'Connell: Eleven years in Australia and on Ponape Island. Experiences of an Irish mattress in the years 1822-1833. Scherl, Berlin (1930). English title: A residence of eleven years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands.
  • South Seas fairy tale. 2nd edition Diederichs, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-424-00643-2 ( The fairy tales of world literature ). First edition 1916. ( zeno.org or archive.org ).
  • Faraulip. Love legends from the South Seas. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1983, ISBN 3-404-10277-0 ( Bastei-Lübbe. Volume 10277). First edition 1924.
  • Malay fairy tale. From Madagascar and Insulinde. Diederichs, Jena 1922 ( The fairy tales of world literature ). ( projekt-gutenberg.org )

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SURNAME Hambruch, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1933
Place of death Hamburg