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Wagner, Günter, 1908-1952

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Personal name headingWagner, Günter, 1908-1952
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Associated countryGermany United States Kenya Namibia
Birth date19080928
Death date1952
Place of birthBerlin (Germany)
AffiliationInternational African Institute
Universität Tübingen
Germany. Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda
South-West Africa. Department of Native Affairs
Profession or occupationAnthropologists
Found inBukusu tales, 1995: t.p. (Günter Wagner) p. 4 of cover (1908-1952; anthropologist specializing in the Bantu speaking people of western Kenya)
LC database, June 12, 1998 (hdg.: Wagner, Günter, 1908-1952)
Wikipedia, German version, May 28, 2015 (Günter Wagner; b. Sep. 28, 1908 in Berlin; studied with Franz Boas at Columbia University; stays at University of Chicago and UC Berkeley 1933-1939, did fieldwork for the International African Institute (London) of the Luhya group, Kenya; diss. 1940 at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin; lecturer in ethnology, Tübingen; worked for Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda; in 1950 went to South West Africa, ethnologist for Department of Native Affairs; d. 1952 of pneumonia during fieldwork among the Herero, Namibia)
Associated languageger eng