László Vajda

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László Vajda was born in Budapest, Hungary on February 3rd. 1923. He attended the famous Budapesti Piarista Gimnázium and consequently studied at Budapest University, submitting his PhD thesis in 1947. He left Hungary in 1956 for Western Germany. Germanan anthropologist Hermann Baumann (Social Anthropologist) gave him his first job at the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt. Later on he moved with Baumann to the Institut für Völkerkunde und Afrikanistik in Munich, where he spent all his remaining career. Published his postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) "Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Hirtenkulturen" in 1968.

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