Thomas Geider

Thomas Geider (born April 29, 1953 in Bonn ; † October 15, 2010 ) was a German philologist for African languages and an ethnologist .

Life

After studying geography , ethnology and African studies in Bonn and Cologne, Geider received his doctorate in 1989 with a thesis on "The figure of the ogre in traditional literature and the world of Pokomo in East Kenya". From 1991 to 1996 he held the position of a research assistant at the Frankfurt Collaborative Research Center “Cultural Development and Language History in the Natural Area of the West African Savannah”.

His teaching and research on African languages and oral literature led him to the universities of Maiduguri (Nigeria), Leipzig and Mainz, where he a. a. was employed as scientific director of the Janheinz Jahn library. After his habilitation in 2001 on “Motive research in folk tales of the Kanuri” in the Faculty of Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, he taught as a private lecturer. In 2007 Geider was appointed Associate Professor at the Goethe University due to his services to African oratura research.

Geider died of a stroke.

Web links

Literature by and about Thomas Geider in the catalog of the German National Library

credentials

↑ The figure of the ogre in traditional literature and the world of the Pokomo in Eastern Kenya. 1. Analytical part. 2. Documentation part. Rüdiger Köppe, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-927620-60-2 . (Word art and documentary texts in African languages, vol. 1) (dissertation, University of Cologne 1988).
↑ Motivation research in folk tales of the Kanuri (Lake Chad region). A contribution to method development in African studies. Rüdiger Köppe, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-89645-273-8 . (Word art and documentary texts in African languages, Vol. 17) (Habilitation thesis, University of Frankfurt / M. 2000)
↑ Reuster-Jahn, Uta, 2010: In memoriam. Thomas Geider April 29, 1953 - October 15, 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Swahili Forum 17 : 11-13.@1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Geider, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn
DATE OF DEATH	October 15, 2010

[1] The figure of the ogre in traditional literature and the world of the Pokomo in Eastern Kenya. 1. Analytical part. 2. Documentation part. Rüdiger Köppe, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-927620-60-2 . (Word art and documentary texts in African languages, vol. 1) (dissertation, University of Cologne 1988).

[2] Motivation research in folk tales of the Kanuri (Lake Chad region). A contribution to method development in African studies. Rüdiger Köppe, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-89645-273-8 . (Word art and documentary texts in African languages, Vol. 17) (Habilitation thesis, University of Frankfurt / M. 2000)

[3] Reuster-Jahn, Uta, 2010: In memoriam. Thomas Geider April 29, 1953 - October 15, 2010 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Swahili Forum 17 : 11-13.@1@ 2