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Schebesta, Paul, 1887-1967

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Personal name headingSchebesta, Paul, 1887-1967
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Variant(s)Schebasta, Paul, 1887-1967
Birth date18870520
Death date19670917
Place of birthMoravia (Czech Republic)
Place of deathMödling (Austria)
Field of activityEthnology Linguistics Missions Pygmies
AffiliationSociety of the Divine Word. Missionshaus Sankt Gabriel
Profession or occupationMissionaries Ethnologists Linguists
Found inBambuti: die Zwerge vom Kongo, 1932: t.p. (Paul Schebesta)
LC Online Cat., Jan. 11, 2005 (hdg.: Schebesta, Paul, 1887-1967; usage; Paul Schebesta)
Les pygmées, 1940: t.p. (Paul Schebasta)
Anthropos website, viewed June 1, 2013: heritage (Paul Schebesta SVD; missionary, ethnologist, linguist, physical anthropologist, Pygmy researcher; b. Mar. 20, 1887 in Gross-Peterwitz, Moravia (today Czech Republic); d. Sep. 17, 1967 at St. Gabriel in Mödling near Vienna; entered Society of the Divine Word, ordained 1911; doctorate Univ. of Vienna, 1926; fluent in Czech and Polish; learned German in school; later acquired the Bantu and Malaysian languages)
Wikipedia, German version, June 1, 2013 (Paul Schebesta; Paul Joachim Schebesta)
Paul J. Schebesta mit Briefen aus dem Urwald, c2017: p. 7 (Paul Joachim Schebesta)
Associated languagecze ger pol bnt may