Hermann Baumann (social anthropologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Hermann Baumann (social anthropologist)
- Hermann Baumann (February 9, 1902 – June 30, 1972) 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.
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