Ina-Maria Greverus

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Ina-Maria Greverus (16 August 1929 in Zwickau – 11 April 2017 in Frankfurt am Main) [1] was a German folklorist and university lecturer in European ethnology and cultural anthropology.

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Life

Ina-Maria Greverus grew up before and during the Second World War in Zwickau on the Saale. After the occupation of Saxony by the Soviet army, she fled to relatives in Alte Land. She completed her A-levels in Stade. During her studies in Marburg, she met Will Greverus, to whom she was married from 1952 to 1968. This marriage produced three children. [2]

For professional reasons, she later lived in Giessen, Lahnau-Atzbach and Frankfurt am Main.

Ina-Maria Greverus undertook many research and private trips, which were characterized by her ethnological view. [3] She described herself as a philobatin. [4]

Career

Ina-Maria Greverus initially studied German Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Art History and Folklore at the Marburg and University of Uppsala. In 1956, she was awarded a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Marburg with the dissertation Die Geschenke des kleinen Volkes - KHM 182 - Eine vergleichende Untersuchung. [5] In 1970, she completed her habilitation at the University of Giessen with the work Der territoriale Mensch, an analysis of the phenomena of Heimat and identity. She worked as a professor in Giessen from 1971. In 1974 she founded the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Frankfurt am Main and became its first professor and director until her retirement in 1997. Greverus' successor since 1998 has been her student Gisela Welz.

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References

  1. "Das Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie trauert um Ina-Maria Greverus". uni-frankfurt.de. Universität Frankfurt am Main. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  2. Anne Claire Groffmann, Beatrice Block, Ute Ritschel (1997), Regina Röhmhild (ed.), Kulturanthropologinnen im Dialog. Ein Buch für und mit Ina-Maria Greverus, Königstein: Ulrike Heimer Verlag, ISBN   3-927164-60-7 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Ina-Maria Greverus (1995), Die anderen und ich. Vom Sich Erkennen, Erkannt- und Anerkanntwerden, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, p. 104, ISBN   3-534-12311-5
  4. Ina-Maria Greverus: Ina unterwegs oder Bildergeschichte einer Philobatin. Audiovisions-Show. 2009
  5. Online: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-716263.