Walter Krickeberg

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Walter Krickeberg (born June 27, 1885 in Schwiebus ( Neumark ), † July 15, 1962 in Berlin ) was a German Americanist and ethnologist . His main focus was the indigenous North and Mesoamerican cultures and religions and the ancient American studies . His teacher was Paul Ehrenreich . From 1939 to 1954 he was director of the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, but also co-editor of the Nazi magazine for racial studies .

He became known to a broader public through his collections of Indian tales from North America as well as tales of the Aztecs and Inca Peruvians , Maya and Muisca in the series Die Märchen der Weltliteratur published by Friedrich von der Leyen .

He worked on two popular and very widespread works: the Illustrierte Völkerkunde by Georg Buschan , whose America-Africa volume of the second edition he designed together with Richard Lasch and Arthur Haberlandt , and the Große Völkerkunde published by Hugo A. Bernatzik , where he together designed the Australia-America volume with Herbert Tischner and Bernatzik. He was also a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory and received its Rudolf Virchow plaque in 1955.

During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Berlin .

Works

  • Georg Buschan (ed.): Illustrated ethnology. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1910. (Contributions by Walter Krickeberg (American primitive peoples), Georg Buschan (Australia), W. Volz and A. Byhan (Asia) and Felix von Luschan (Africa)).
  • (Georg Buschan) Illustrated ethnology in two volumes. Volume I. Comparative Ethnology: America - Africa. From Dr. Richard Lasch , Dr. Walter Krickeberg, Dr. Artur Haberlandt. 2nd completely revised and significantly increased edition, Strecker and Schröder, Stuttgart 1922.
  • Walter Krickeberg: Indian tales from North America. Diederichs, Jena 1924
  • Walter Krickeberg: Tales of the Aztecs and Inca Peruvians, Maya and Muisca . Diederichs, Jena 1928
  • Hugo A. Bernatzik (ed.): The great ethnology. Volume 3: Australia, America . edit by Herbert Tischner , Walter Krickeberg, Hugo Adolf Bernatzik. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1939
  • Rock sculptures and rock carvings among the civilized peoples of ancient America with special attention to Mexico. 2 volumes, Palmen-Verlag vorm. Reimer, Berlin 1949–1969
    • Volume 1 1. The Andean countries. 2. The rock temples in Mexico (1949)
    • Volume 2 Rock Art Mexico: As Historical, Religious and Art Monuments (1969)
  • Central American monuments . 1950
  • Older ethnographica from North America in the Berlin Museum of Ethnology. Reimer, Berlin 1954
  • Ancient Mexican cultures. Safari-Verlag, Berlin 1956
  • (together with Hermann Trimborn ; Werner Müller and Otto Zerries ): The religions of old America. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1961 (The Religions of Mankind, Volume 7; Contents: Walter Krickeberg: The Religions of the Cultivated Peoples of Mesoamerica (Mexico, Maya) - Hermann Trimborn: The Religions of the Peoples of Southern Central America and the Northern and Central Andean Region (Costa Rica , Panama, Colombia, Ecuador - Peru, Bolivia) - Werner Müller: The religions of the Indian peoples of North America - Otto Zerries: The religions of the indigenous peoples of South America and West India.)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 339.
  2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 122.
personal data
SURNAME Krickeberg, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Americanist and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwiebus , Neumark
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1962
Place of death Berlin