!!!Bernatzik, Hugo

b. Vienna, March 26, 1897, 
d. Vienna, March 9, 1953, ethnologist; son of Edmund  Bernatzik, 
husband of Emmy  Bernatzik. From 1939 university professor in Graz, 
founder of the science of applied ethnology. On his many expeditions 
studied the causes of rapid population decline among colonized 
indigenous peoples and promoted colonization policies which took more 
consideration of their traditional way of life.

!Works
Albanien, 1930; Die Geister der gelben Blaetter, 1938; Die 
grosse Voelkerkunde 1939 (ed.); Zwischen Weissem Nil und Kongo, 1943; 
Afrika, Handbuch der angewandten Voelkerkunde, 2 vols., 1947.

!Literature
D. Byer, Der Fall H. A. B. Ein Leben zwischen Ethnologie 
und Oeffentlichkeit, 1999.



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