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Ganslmayr, Herbert, 1937-1991

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Personal name headingGanslmayr, Herbert, 1937-1991
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Variant(s)Ganslmayr, Herbert, 1937-
Associated countryGermany Nigeria
Birth date1937
Death date19910427
Place of deathAthens (Greece)
AffiliationÜbersee-Museum Bremen
Universität München
Profession or occupationAnthropologists
Found inHis Das Krokodil im Kult und Mythus afrikanischer Stämme, 1969.
Interviews with German anthropologists website, viewed Oct. 13, 2014 (Herbert Ganslmayr; b. 1932 [i.e. 1937]; studied pedagogy, anthropology, history and Egyptology in Munich and Basel; after completing his PhD thesis in 1965, he took an assistant position at the Institute for Ethnology and African Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Munich; did fieldwork in southern Nigeria; worked as curator at the Overseas Museum in Bremen for some years, became its head chairman in 1975; head chairman, International Committee for Ethnography Museums, since 1986; d. Apr. 27, 1991 in Athens)
MINOM-ICOM.net website, Hauenschild, Andrea. Claims and reality of new museology, Aug. 11, 2004, viewed Oct. 13, 2014: p. 1 (in memoriam Dr. Herbert Ganslmayr 1937-1991)
Associated languageger