Richard Karutz

Richard Karutz (born November 2, 1867 in Stralsund , † February 10, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German ENT doctor and ethnologist .

Life

Richard Karutz was born into a Stralsund merchant family. He attended high school in Stralsund until he graduated from high school. From 1886 he studied medicine at the University of Jena , where he became a member of the Corps Thuringia . In 1891 he completed his medical studies with the state examination and obtained his doctorate in Jena. med. He first worked as a ship's doctor on the voyage to and from South America and then did his military service. For a short time Karutz started his own business in Erfurt , but then gave up this practice to work again as a ship's doctor, this time on the trip to West Africa. He then did his ENT specialist in Wroclaw and in 1894 re-founded a practice in Lübeck.

In 1903 and 1909 he traveled to Mangyschlak and described the customs and art of the Turkmen and Kyrgyz in a book published in 1911.

In 1921 he moved to Stuttgart and in 1938 to Dresden. His interest in ethnology had been aroused on his trips abroad . In Lübeck he began to train himself ethnologically and in particular made use of the opportunities opened up to him by the Museum of Ethnology in the Museum am Dom . The Museum am Dom was built from 1889 to 1893 and privately supported by the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . It was under the direction of Theodor Hach . Karutz was appointed head of the museum's ethnographic collection in 1896. As early as 1897, the Lübeck Karutz Collection presented itself as an independent museum for ethnology in Lübeck. Karutz called on all Lübeck merchants with foreign contacts to procure exhibits from the respective countries and make them available to the museum. The appeal had a considerable response, so that the Lübeck collection grew rapidly as a result. Richard Karutz himself also set an example and gave the museum exhibits that he had brought back from his travels through Africa and Asia, but also to Estonia. He also initiated the Pangwe expedition to West Africa (1907-09) by the Lübeck ethnologist Günther Tessmann . From Stuttgart, too, he took care of “his” Lübeck museum until 1928. The collections were considerably decimated during the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 , but most of them were in storage and survived the Second World War. The old museum at the cathedral burned down with the Lübeck cathedral .

Karutz had experienced military service in the First World War as a military doctor. After the war he met the anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner in 1920 . He turned to his teaching and tried to make anthroposophical use of his ethnological work with ethnosophical approaches. His related writings were banned in the Third Reich. His writings also found no echo in ethnology. From Stuttgart he taught at the Goetheanum in Dornach SO in the 1920s .

Fonts

• On the ethography of the Basques in: Globus 74 (1898), pp. 333-340
• The African horn masks in: MGGL 15 (1901), p. 192
• According to the cave cities of southern Tunisia in: Globus 92 (1907), pp. 117–123 and 215–218
• From Lübeck to Kokand in: MGGL 18 (1904), pp. 1–142
• Der Emanismus in: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 1913, pp. 545–611
• War and ethnology , Berlin 1917
• Guide through the South Seas department of the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Lübeck , Lübeck 1917
• The Estonian collection of the Museum of Ethnology in Lübeck , Lübeck 1919
• Guide to the Museum of Ethnology in Lübeck , Lübeck 1921 (with R. Karutz's list of publications)
• The purpose of the Museum of Ethnology in Lübeck , Lübeck 1921
• Atlas of Ethnology , Stuttgart 1925/1926
  • Volume 1: The peoples of North and Central Asia
  • Volume 2: The Peoples of Europe Archive.org
• Writings on ethnology , 7 volumes,
• Lectures on moral ethnology , 50 deliveries, Stuttgart 1930–1934
• From Goethe to the ethnology of the future, Stuttgart, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1929
• But from the tree of knowledge ... meaning and image of the trees of paradise . Orient-Occident-Verlag. Stuttgart [u. a.] 1930.
• Among the Kirghiz and Turkmen , Ullstein-Verlag , Berlin 1911 Archive.org

literature

• M. Karutz: Richard Karutz in: Der Wagen 1951/1952, pp. 140–144
• Friedrich von Rohden: From old Lübeck doctors in: Der Wagen 1960, p. 95/96
• Helga Rammow: Richard Karutz. In: Alken Bruns (Ed.): Lübeck resumes . Neumünster 1993, pp. 199 ff. ISBN 3529027294
• Brigitte Templin: Oh man, know yourself. Richard Karutz (1867-1945) and his contribution to ethnology. Lübeck contributions to ethnology Vol. 1. Lübeck 2010, 380 p. M. 33 fig.ISBN 978-3-7950-1297-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Karutz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corps Lists 1910, 129 , No. 688.