Hermann Baumann (Social Anthropologist)

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Hermann Baumann (1902 - 1972) was an influential German Africa expert.

During the Third Reich, he was active as a government adviser, working on the eventual restoration of German colonies in Africa. After the war, he continued to work as a government adviser.

The museum in Dundo, Angola houses 1,018 pieces collected by Baumann in 1954.

Baumann was Professor off African Studies and Social Anthropology in Munich. He retired in 1972, and returned to Angola, to continue the work on the material he had collected two decades earlier. Baumann fell ill with Malaria, and died within hours of his transfer to Munich from a Lisbon hospital.

László Vajda was his pupil. However, Vajda rejected the main opus of Baumann "Die Voelker Afrikas und Ihre Traditionallen Kulturen" (published posthumously), because of the numerous errors it contained, and withdrew his name from the article he had authored for the work.

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