Stephan Lehner

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Stephan Lehner (born May 17, 1877 in Nuremberg , † May 26, 1947 in Brisbane , Australia ) was a German ethnologist and Evangelical Lutheran missionary at the Huongolf in Papua New Guinea .

Life

After training as a graphic designer , Lehner joined the Neuendettelsauer Missionswerk , which, after appropriate preparation, sent him to Neuendettelsau (near Nuremberg) and Australia in 1906 as a missionary to the Bukawa tribe in Papua New Guinea (at the time the German colony of Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land ). He was not only active in missionary work there, but also studied folk customs, pre-Christian religion and mythology and the natural history of the Bukawa area. Stephan Lehner is the grandfather of the journalist, author and painter Thomas Jean Lehner and the great uncle of the freemason , poet and essayist Alfried Lehner .

Services

Over the course of three decades, Lehner published numerous articles about his research and created detailed maps of the Huongolf area. Together with the ethnologist Richard Neuhauss, he also traveled to the area of ​​the Lae (womba) tribe neighboring the Bukawa. He left his extensive collection of jewelry and cult objects and other handicrafts to a. Neuhauss. Some of these objects are now part of the Neuhaus collection in the Ethnological Museum Berlin and the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg.

Works (selection)

  • Bukaua . In: Richard Neuhauss, German New Guinea, Vol. III, pp. 397–485. Berlin: Verlag Dietrich Reimer, 1911.
  • Belief in spirits and souls of the Bukaua and other indigenous tribes in the Huongolf of Northeast New Guinea . In: Messages from the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, 14. 1930.
  • The natives' view of nature in northeast New Guinea . In: Baessler-Archiv 14: 105-122. Berlin 1931.
  • Fairy tales and legends of the Melanesian tribe of the Bukawac (German New Guinea, Hüongolf north coast). In: Baessler-Archiv 14 (2): 35-72. Berlin 1931.
  •  The social position of women among the Papuan-Melanesian population of northeast New Guinea . In: Mitteilungsblatt der Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde Leipzig 3: 12-18, 1934.
  • Manners and rights of the Bukawac Melanesian tribe . In: Archives for Anthropology, NF 23: 239-284. 1935.
  • The idea of ​​the magic of death (Grandpa, Ofang, Silam, Selam or Bumbum) among the natives of New Guinea . In: Bulletin of the Society for Ethnology, No. 6: 32-43, 1935.
  •  On the psychology of the Melanesian tribe of the Bukawac (German New Guinea, Hüongolf north coast). In: Archives for Anthropology, NF24, 45-63, 1937.
  • To the nature view of the Melanesian tribe of the Bukawac (German New Guinea, Hüongolf north coast). In: Archives for Anthropology, NF 24, 96-102, 1937.
  • Native games at Huongolf in Northeast New Guinea . In: Bulletin of the German Society for Ethnology, 10: 31-75, 1940.

literature

  • Dech, Uwe Christian: Mission and Culture in Old New Guinea. The missionary and ethnologist Stephan Lehner. Bielefeld: transcript, 2005. (with bibliography of Stephan Lehner's works and a comprehensive bibliography)
  • Hagelauer, Brigitte: Finding aid for the records of society, mission institute, mission and diaspora seminar and mission work from 1824 , http://mission-einewelt.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/teilStock11.pdf ; accessed July 14, 2015
  • Kaima, Sam Tua; Kanasa, Biama: A Bibliography Of Morobe Province . First Edition: University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Tuesday, January 05, 1999. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MOROBE PROVINCE ( Memento of July 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  • Garrett, John: Footsteps in the Sea. Christianity in Oceania to World War II . Geneva, Switzerland World Council of Churches; Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dech, Uwe Christian: Mission and Culture in Old New Guinea (2005), pp. 15–33 u. P. 179ff.
  2. ↑ Dech, Uwe Christian: Mission and Culture in Old New Guinea (2005), pp. 83–94, pp. 138f u. Pp. 207-211.
  3. ↑ Hagelauer, Brigitte: Findbuch S. 8ff
personal data
SURNAME Lehner, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehner, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German missionary and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1947
Place of death Brisbane