Robert Routil

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Robert Routil (born May 8, 1893 in Vienna ; † October 4, 1955 ibid) was an Austrian anthropologist and ethnologist .

Life

Routil studied chemistry, geodesy and actuarial mathematics at the Technical University of Vienna , interrupted during the First World War from service in the kuk telegraph regiment , and graduated in 1922 actuarial mathematics. He first worked as a medical statistician for American aid organizations ( Commonwealth Fund ) in Austria. At the same time, at the suggestion of a clergyman, he studied ethnology and anthropology at the University of Vienna until he received his doctorate in 1929.

Routil initially worked at the Anthropos Institute in St. Gabriel, was briefly employed at the Natural History Museum Vienna in 1930 and became an assistant at the Anthropological Institute of the University of Vienna in 1931. In 1933/34 he was a member of the NSDAP , to which he appealed in 1938 when he was attacked because of Catholic ties ("one of the blackest patriotic agitators"). In 1941 he went to the Natural History Museum, where he was promoted to head of the anthropological collection in 1945 as the successor to the deposed Josef Wastl . In 1951 he gave a lecture on the concept of racism at a UNESCO conference of the International Council of Museums in which he tried to preserve the concept of race for science in the sense of general human research.

Fonts

  • Peoples and races on the soil of Carinthia (1937)
  • Anthropological-hereditary family research as the basis of racial analysis (from the anthropological inst. D. Univ. Vienna) 1941
  • Cameroon, Country and People (1941)
  • Biometric studies. Family anthropological studies in the East Swabian village of Marienfeld in the Romanian Banat (1942)
  • Filipinos, Moros, Negritos (1943)

literature

  • Karl Pusman: The "human sciences" on Viennese soil ( 1870-1959 ): the Anthropological Society in Vienna ... , Lit, Vienna-Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-8258-0472-5
  • Maria Teschler-Nicola: Aspects of hereditary biology and the racial expert opinion in Austria until 1938 , in: Eberhard Gabriel , Wolfgang Neugebauer (Ed.): Vorreiter der Vernichtung ?: Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938 , Part III, Böhlau , Vienna a. a. 2005, p. 99ff ISBN 3-205-77122-2 .

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Teschler-Nicola, p. 99
  2. ↑ Margit Berner u. a .: Viennese anthropologies , in: Karl A. Fröschl u. a. (Ed.): Reflexive insights from the university: Disciplinary stories between science, society and politics , Göttingen 2015, p. 42
personal data
SURNAME Routil, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ethnologist and racial researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1955
Place of death Vienna