Hermann Baumann (Social Anthropologist)
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Hermann Baumann was an influential German Africa expert.
In 1928, Baumann became editor-in-chief of the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Berlin, a post which he held until 1941. During the Third Reich, he was active as a government adviser, working on the eventual restoration of German colonies in Africa. After the war, he continued to work as a government adviser.
The museum in Dundo
, Angola
houses 1,018 pieces collected by Baumann in 1954.
Baumann was Professor of African Studies and Social Anthropology in Vienna
and Munich
. He retired in 1972, and returned to Angola, to continue the work on the material he had collected two decades earlier. Baumann fell ill with Malaria
, and died within hours of his transfer to Munich
from a Lisbon hospital.
In 1928, Baumann became editor-in-chief of the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Berlin, a post which he held until 1941. During the Third Reich, he was active as a government adviser, working on the eventual restoration of German colonies in Africa. After the war, he continued to work as a government adviser.
The museum in Dundo
Dundo
Dundo is an Angolan mining town located in Lunda Norte Province.The city is the home of the football club called Grupo Desportivo Sagrada Esperança, which plays at Estádio Quintalão. The local museum houses objects collected by Hermann Baumann...
, Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
houses 1,018 pieces collected by Baumann in 1954.
Baumann was Professor of African Studies and Social Anthropology in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
and Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
. He retired in 1972, and returned to Angola, to continue the work on the material he had collected two decades earlier. Baumann fell ill with Malaria
Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...
, and died within hours of his transfer to Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
from a Lisbon hospital.
External links
- Michael Lackner / Cristian Alvarado: Kultur und Rasse nach dem Nationalsozialismus. Ein Gespräch mit Michael Lackner über Hermann Baumann als akademischer Lehrer
- Jana Schmitter: "weil ja Rasse und Kultur sich gegenseitig bedingende Wesenheiten sind". Zur Wechselwirkung ethnologischer Arbeit und politischer Haltungen im Nationalsozialismus — das Beispiel Hermann Baumann
- Christoph Seidler: Wissenschaftsgeschichte nach der NS-Zeit: das Beispiel der Ethnologie. Die beiden Ethnologen Wilhelm Mühlmann (1904–1988) und Hermann Baumann (1902–1972)
- http://www.ethno-im-ns.uni-hamburg.de - On German anthropology during National Socialism