biography
pronunciation:
[shmit]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1868–1954)
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| biography:
| Ethnologist, born in Hörde, WC Germany. Ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1892, he studied oriental languages at Berlin University (1893–5), and became professor in the St Gabriel Mission Seminary at Mödling, where he remained until 1938. He also taught at Vienna and Fribourg. Influenced by Fritz Graebner, he sought to develop and refine Graebner's system of Kulturkreise or trait clusters, proposing a theory of devolution to counter that of cultural evolution. In 1906 he founded the journal Anthropos. |
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