Willy Foy

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Willy Karl Max Emil Foy (born November 27, 1873 in Leipzig ; died March 1, 1929 ) was a German ethnologist and Indo-Europeanist .

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Ubierring 45 (around 1910)

life and work

Willy Foy was born in Leipzig on November 27, 1873. He attended the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Cologne for a few years and studied at the University of Leipzig . In 1895 he received his doctorate on the subject of "The royal power according to the ancient Indian legal books, the Dharmasūtrs and older Dharmaśāstren". In the same year he became an assistant at the Ethnographic Museum in Dresden . In 1901 he became the first director of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde and from 1914 taught as a professor at Cologne University . Foy was the editor of the Kulturgeschichtliche Bibliothek , the first volume of which was the book Method of Ethnology (1911) by Fritz Graebner (1877-1934) - the founder of the cultural-historical method in ethnology - who succeeded him as museum director in 1925.

Publications (selection)

  • The royal power according to the ancient Indian legal books, the Dharmasūtrs and older Dharmaśāstren. Leipzig: Printed by G. Kreysing, 1895 digitized
  • About old bronze drums from Southeast Asia. Vienna: Self-published by the Anthropological Society , 1903 digitized
  • Guide to the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (Museum of Ethnology) in the city of Cologne. Cöln 1906 digitized ; 2nd edition 1908 digitized
  • (Ed.) Library of cultural history

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Leo Haupts: The University of Cologne in the transition from National Socialism to the Federal Republic. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-17806-2 , p. 316 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Winter, Heidelberg 1911, Series 1, Ethnological Library: With incl. d. ancient oriental. Cultural history. - digitized
  3. ↑ archive.nrw.de - accessed on April 14, 2019

literature

  • Leo Haupts: The University of Cologne in the transition from National Socialism to the Federal Republic. (Studies on the history of the University of Cologne, Volume 18) 2007 ( partial online view )

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personal data
SURNAME Foy, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foy, Willy Karl Max Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1929