Rudolf Trebitsch

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Rudolf Trebitsch (born January 28, 1876 in Vienna , † October 9, 1918 in Graz ) was an Austrian ethnologist .

Life

Trebitsch was born as the son of the commercial councilor Leopold Trebitsch . He was a student of the anthropologist Rudolf Pöch and the ethnologist Michael Haberlandt . In 1911 he received his doctorate. phil. about primitive ship vehicles . Research trips took him to France , Switzerland , Italy , the Balkans , West Greenland (1906), Ireland and England (1907), Brittany and Northern Italy (1908), Wales , Isle of Man, Scotland (1909), again in 1911 in Brittany and in 1913 in the Basque Country .

Trebitsch recorded dialects, folk songs and dances in sound recordings and scientific descriptions for the phonogram archive of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In addition, he recorded the language and chants of the Eskimo in West Greenland on 69 wax plates in 1906 , and performed them there, with "an Edison graphophone doing an excellent job".

"His book" With the Eskimo of West Greenland ", as well as his phonographic recordings of surviving Celtic dialects , which Trebitsch made on behalf of the phonogram archive of the Vienna Academy of Science in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany, on the Isle of Man, with the Basques collected, drew the attention of scientific circles to the scholar, who, in addition to the relevant academy reports, also gave instructive lectures on these journeys and their results in the Urania , in the meetings of the Anthropological Society and in our society, as well as at various educational institutions Knew how to teach the public. A whole number of solid folkloristic and ethnic psychological investigations and treatises followed in the course of his further penetrating studies and his eager preoccupation with folklore problems. "

In 1908, Trebitsch showed the members of the 16th International Americanist Congress in Vienna "Ethnographics from West Greenland, with a presentation of photographs and phonograms".

Rudolf Trebitsch wrote poems and film scripts under the pseudonym Hans Dietrolf. The poems Eislauf , Liebchen's birthday and lights were set to music by Richard Stöhr (Op. 56 / 1-3), the poem Weine nicht by Ludwig Rochlitzer , Trebitsch dedicated it to Edgar Calle . The cinema scripts Captured - in their own network !, What the Danube tells or Danube rushing ., Die stupme Liebe as well as the operetta libretto Tschiripi and the sketch for the symbolic ballet dance symphony are available as unpublished typescripts.

Research priorities

Trebitsch's main research areas included the languages ​​of European minorities, especially the Celtic languages .

Publications

  • Phonographic recordings of the Breton language and two musical instruments in Brittany, made in the summer of 1908 (= reports of the phonogram archive commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. No. 17). Hölder, Vienna 1909.
  • With the Eskimos in West Greenland. Results of a summer trip in 1906. In addition to an ethnological appendix by Dr. M. Haberlandt . 62 photos. Reimer, Berlin 1910.
  • Basque voice and music recordings, made in the summer of 1913 (= communication from the Phonogram Archives Commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. No. 34). Hölder, Vienna 1914.
  • Skin boats and swimming bags and their geographical distribution in the past and present. In: Archives for Anthropology. New series, vol. XI, issue 3, pp. 161-184.
  • Primitive ship vehicles. In: The look around. Nov. 1, 1915, No. 45, pp. 945 f.
  • Racial issues. In: Urania. Journal of Popular Education. X. Jhg., No. 17, Vienna April 28, 1917, pp. 209 ff.

Web links

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  • Austrian State Archives, War Archives, Vienna Military Command, Landsturm - Evidenz - Sheets, Doctors, Box 9
  • Austrian Museum of Folklore, Archive, Vienna
  • Siegfried Trebitsch, Chronicle of a Life, Zurich 1951, p. 295 ff.
  • Leopold Schmidt, Rudolf Trebitsch in memory of the special exhibition of the Austrian Museum of Folklore, unpublished typescript, Vienna 1956
  • Letters from Rudolf Trebitsch to Milena Wlodzimirska, June 15, 1906 to September 16, 1916, signed. Autogr. 146 / 119-1 to 7 Han, collection of manuscripts and old prints, Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death record of the kk district court Graz, Zl. 4237 of October 12, 1918
  2. ↑ a b Trebitsch in the phonogram archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  3. ^ Phonographic recordings of the Eskimo language , No. IX of the reports of the Phonogram Archives - Commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, carried out by Dr. Rudolf Trebitsch and Dr. Gustav Stiassny in the summer of 1906, p. 1677 ff.
  4. ↑ Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , Volume XXIV, Vienna 1918, p. 135
  5. ^ Franz Boas, Science, No. 722, October 30, 1908, p. 598
  6. ^ Richard Stöhr: Op. 56 / 1-3, songs based on poems by Hans Dietrolf, singing with piano. Siegel, Leipzig undated Sign. MS75437-4 °, Music Collection, Austrian National Library
  7. ↑ Ludwig Rochlitzer: Don't cry, poem by Hans Dietrolf, song for a voice and piano, music manuscript 1913. Sign. MHc-12537, Vienna library in the town hall
  8. ↑ Sign. 760593-D, 760594-C, 760595-D, 799193-C and 799194-C, Library, Austrian Theater Museum
personal data
SURNAME Trebitsch, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1918
Place of death Graz