Rudolf Rahmann

Rudolf Rahmann SVD (born September 20, 1902 in Niederense , † September 23, 1985 in Troisdorf ) was a German priest, missionary and ethnologist.

Life

Ordained a priest on May 6, 1929. He began his philosophy studies at the University of Vienna , in 1935 as a Dr. phil. PhD ( deities and shamanism among the Munda peoples and their Dravidian neighbors. A contribution to the religion of the primitive tribes of the eastern Indian region ). From 1935 he was rector of the Catholic Fu-Jen University . In 1952 he was appointed to the University of San Carlos in Cebu City (Philippines). In 1956 he was appointed full professor at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) ( full professor of the philosophical faculty and he was given a chair in ethnology). He became editor of the magazine Anthropos , an international journal for ethnology and linguistics. From 1964 to 1970 he was President of San Carlos University. From 1977 he worked at the Anthropos Institute in St. Augustin .

As an ethnologist, Rahmann researched the Negrito tribes of Northern Negros, which were in the process of extinction

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1978)
• Honorary citizen of the Niederense community
• Honorary member of the St. Hubertus Niederense Rifle Society

Works (selection)

• Deities of the primitive tribes in north-eastern India . in: Anthropos . 31,1 / 2 (1936), pp. 37-96, ISSN  0257-9774 (also dissertation, Vienna 1935).
• with Gertrudes R. Ang (Ed.): Dr. H. Otley Beyer . Dean of Philippine anthropology. A commemorative issue (= San Carlos Publications. Ser. E. Miscellaneous Contributions in the humanities . Number 1). University of San Carlos, Cebu City 1968, OCLC 253849808 .

literature

• Fu Jen studies. Natural sciences & foreign languages. Commemorative issue in honor of Rudolf Rahmann, SVD, on his 70th birthday . Fu Jen University, Taipei 1973, OCLC 6447539 .

Web links

• Father Prof. Dr. Dr. Rudolf Rahmann