Siegfried Ferdinand Nadel

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Siegfried Ferdinand Nadel (born April 24, 1903 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary , † January 14, 1956 in Canberra , Australia; also SF Nadel , Siegfried F. Nadel , Siegfried Frederick Nadel , Frederick Nadel or Fred Nadel ) was born in Galicia British musicologist, psychologist and social anthropologist . His specialty was African ethnology .

His work A Black Byzantium. The Kingdom of Nupe in Nigeria (Eng. "A Black Byzantium. The Kingdom of the Nupe in Nigeria"), London 1946, is considered a classic in anthropology.

Life

Siegfried Nadel was the son of the lawyer Moritz Nadel and his wife Adele geb. Deer jump. He began his training in music and studied piano with Richard Robert at the State Academy and music history at the University of Vienna , but also developed an interest in philosophy and psychology . He then studied the latter with Karl Bühler at the Psychological Institute of the University of Vienna, and the former with Moritz Schlick . On November 11, 1925, he was with his work "On the Psychology of Konsonanzerlebens " Dr. phil. PhD.

He started his career in music. He published books on Musical Typology (1931) and the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni and spent a short time as an assistant conductor at the Düsseldorf Opera House in 1925.

In 1926 Nadel married the musicologist Lisbeth Braun (* 1900) in Vienna. Braun had received her doctorate three years earlier on the subject of "Joseph Starzer's ballet compositions".

After studying the music of primitive peoples at the Phonogram Archive in Berlin and African languages at the University of Berlin , Nadel received a Rockefeller grant in 1932 , which enabled him to conduct postgraduate training in anthropological field research in Africa. Nadel studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science ( LSE ) under the direction of Bronisław Malinowski . He began his field work in Nigeria in 1933 , which earned him a Ph.D. Title in anthropology from the LSE.

From 1941, Nadel served in the Sudan Defense Force , as did Wilfred Thesiger , and later switched to the British Army ; he was made Secretary of Native Affairs and Deputy Chief Secretary and held these posts until his dismissal in 1944.

Nadel was appointed to the Chair of Anthropology at the Australian National University in 1950 . He spent much of his time lecturing around the world on his wartime experiences and field research in Nigeria and Sudan . He died in Canberra.

Fonts

  • Marimba music . Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna a. Leipzig 1931.
  • The dual sense of music. Attempt a musical typology . Bosse, Regensburg 1931.
  • Ferruccio Busoni 1866-1924 . Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1931.
  • Georgian chants . Berlin: Lautabt., Harrassowitz in Komm., Leipzig 1933.
  • British Military Administration, Eritrea: Races and Tribes of Eritrea . Brit. Military Administration, Asmara 1944.
  • A Black Byzantium. The Kingdom of Nupe in Nigeria . London 1946.
  • The Nuba: an anthropological study of the hill tribes in Kordofan . AMS Press, New York 1978 (Repr. Of the ed. London 1947)
  • The Foundations of Social Anthropology . Cohen & West, 1951.
  • Nupe religion . Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1954.
  • Theory of Social Structure . Routledge, London 1957.
  • Nupe religion. Traditional Beliefs and the Influence of Islam in a West African Chiefdom . Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1970.
  • The Theory of Social Justice . Free Press, 1958.

literature

  • Franz Födermayr:  Nadel, Siegfried Ferdinand (Frederick). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 688 ( digitized version ).
  • Jana Salat: Reasoning as Enterprise. The Anthropology of SF Nadel. Herodot, Göttingen 1983, ISBN 978-3-88694-013-4 .
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 962.
  • Austrian music lexicon . Volume 3. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-7001-3045-1 , p. 1577.
  • Ralf Dahrendorf / C. Crouch, Nadel, Siegfried Friederich. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon, Vol. 1, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1980, p. 306.
  • HA Taatgen: "Anthropological Involution. The Legacy of SF Nadel", in: "Anthropos", Vol. 83, No. 1 (1988), pp. 87-99.
  • JD Freeman: Siegfried Frederick Nadel, 1903-1956. In: Oceania, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Sep., 1956), pp. 1-11 (obituary).

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personal data
SURNAME Nadel, Siegfried Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Needle, SF; Nadel, Siegfried F .; Nadel, Siegried Frederick; Nadel, Frederick; Needle, fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musicologist, psychologist and social anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1956
Place of death Canberra