Ursula Schlenther

Ursula Schlenther (* as Ursula Lüttschwager on August 15, 1919 in Elbing ; † February 10, 1979 ) was a German ethnologist and ancient American .

Ursula Schlenther graduated from high school in 1939 and then attended the teacher training college in Gdansk . In 1940 she was conscripted as a substitute teacher. In 1945 she moved to Kiel and in 1946 began studying ethnology , prehistory , geology and anthropology at the University of Kiel . A year later, she moved to the University of Hamburg , where she worked with Franz Termer and Egmont Zechlin in October 1952 with the work of disseminating some peripheral pre-Columbian cultural elements in the American Mediterranean and neighboring areasPhD. In 1956 she moved to the GDR, and the following year she completed her habilitation at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB) with the thesis on the spread and causes of cremation among non-European peoples . In September 1958 Schlenther became a lecturer in ethnology at the HUB, in September 1961 a professor with a teaching assignment, in September 1966 a professor with a full teaching assignment and in September 1969 a professor with a chair. From 1973 to 1979 she headed the ethnography department at the history section of the Humboldt University.

Fonts

• Cremation and belief in the soul. Distribution and causes of corpse cremation among non-European peoples , DVW, Berlin 1960
• The Mayan Spiritual World. Introduction to the written documents of an Indian priestly culture, DVW, Berlin 1966
• In the kingdom of El Dorado. A cultural history of the Indians in Colombia , Urania, Leipzig a. a. 1971
• Latin America and its indigenous people. Culture and way of life of the Indians of Latin America from the beginnings to the present , Academy, Berlin 1976

literature

• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 534-535.