Rudolf Lehmann (ethnologist)

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Rudolf Friedrich Lehmann (born April 13, 1887 in Dresden , † June 12, 1969 in Munich ) was a German ethnologist and religious scholar.

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Lehmann was the son of the businessman Karl Johannes Lehmann and his wife Margarete Auguste Anders. After his school days, Lehmann began philosophy and theology at the University of Leipzig in 1907 and was able to complete this in 1911 with a successful first theological exam. Lehmann got his first job as a grammar school vicar and stayed that way until 1939.

Parallel to his duties as a lecturer, Lehmann studied history, oriental languages, education, philosophy, religious studies and ethnology at the University of Leipzig. In 1913 Lehmann passed his second theological exam and ten years later the state exam for higher education.

1915 doctorate Lehmann in Leipzig and in 1930 he was there with a study on taboo customs habilitation . After the transfer of power , Lehmann signed on November 11, 1933, the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state at German universities .

He then went on a research trip through Tanzania to research the inhabitants in the southwest of the country. Lehmann and his group were surprised by World War II and interned in South Africa . From 1941 he was entrusted with a teaching position at the university in Witwatersrand . Between 1946 and 1950 Lehmann worked as an assistant ethnologist in South West Africa and as such was significantly involved in the Ethographic Survey of South West Africa.

In 1921 Lehmann married Hildegard Ellrich in Leipzig and had a daughter with her.

In 1947 Lehmann was appointed associate professor for ethnology and in 1950 he accepted a position at the Institute for Ethnology at the University of Potchefstroom . In 1957 Lehmann returned to Germany and from 1958 to 1962 had a teaching position at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He then withdrew from teaching and devoted himself only to research. At the age of 82, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Lehmann on June 12, 1969.

Works (selection)

  • Mana, the term "extraordinarily effective" among South Sea peoples . 1922 digitized
  • The Polynesian taboo customs. An ethnosociological and religious studies study . 1930

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SURNAME Lehmann, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann, Rudolf Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1969
Place of death Munich