Fritz Graebner

Robert Fritz Graebner ( born March 4, 1877 in Berlin, † July 13, 1934 in Berlin) was a German ethnologist.

Life

After studying history at the University of Marburg from 1899 to 1906 he worked at the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin especially for Regional Areas Oceania. In 1906 he moved to the Rautenstrauch -Joest - Museum. During the First World War, he was invited to a conference to Australia and interned until the war's end, he further explored during the captivity. In 1921 he became a professor at the University of Bonn. From 1925 to 1928 he was the head of the diamond -Joest - Museum. In 1926 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Cologne. A stroke in 1926 deteriorated progressively his health, so he had to give up his job in the following years.

He was in 1896 a member of the Philological Historical Society, which later became Marburger fraternity Rhine francs.

Effect

Graebner applies with his 1911 - Method of Ethnology - the founder of cultural- historical method in anthropology. On this basis, and based on the concept of diffusionism he developed jointly with Bernhard Anchorman introduced by Leo Frobenius Kulturkreislehre further.

Works

• Method of Ethnology. Winter, Heidelberg, 1911.
• Cultures and cultural histories in Oceania. In: Journal of Anthropology. Volume 37, 1905, pp. 28-53.
• The world view of the primitives. Ernst Reinhardt, Munich 1924.