Walter Hirschberg

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Walter Hirschberg (born December 17, 1904 in Nova-Gradiška (then Austria-Hungary ), † August 16, 1996 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ethnologist , folklorist and Africanist . He was a professor at the Institute for Ethnology at the University of Vienna and at the University of World Trade in Vienna.

His best-known works include his book Die Kulturen Afrikas in the Handbuch der Kulturgeschichte founded by Heinz Kindermann and the (New) Dictionary of Ethnology .

Alongside Karl R. Wernhart and Christian F. Feest, Hirschberg is considered to be one of the founders of ethnographic history in Vienna.

Hirschberg was buried at the Döblinger Friedhof .

literature

  • Karl R. Wernhart: Walter Hirschberg (1904–1996): Life and work of an anthropologist (with bibliography) . In: Communications of the Anthropological Society in Vienna Volume 127 (1997) Culture and cultural identities .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for cultural and social anthropology: To the history of the institute on univie