Wilhelm Schmidt (linguist)
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Wilhelm Schmidt
Biography
Wilhelm Schmidt, born in
Schmidt’s main passion was
From 1912 to his death in 1954, Schmidt published his 12-volume work Der Ursprung der Gottesidee (The Origin of the Idea of God).[4] In it he explained his theory of
- "Schmidt suggested that there had been a primitive monotheism before men and women had started to worship a number of gods. Originally they had acknowledged only one Supreme Deity, who had created the world and governed human affairs from afar."[5]
In 1906, Schmidt founded the journal Anthropos, and in 1931, the Anthropos Institute, both of which still exist today. In 1938, Schmidt and the Institute fled from Nazi-occupied Austria to Fribourg, Switzerland. He died there in 1954.
His works available in English translation are: The Origin and Growth of Religion: Facts and Theories (1931), High Gods in North America (1933), The Culture Historical Method of Ethnology (1939), and Primitive Revelation (1939).
On Primitive Revelation, Eric J. Sharpe has said: "Schmidt did believe the emergent data of historical ethnology to be fundamentally in accord with biblical revelation—a point which he made in Die Uroffenbarung als Anfang der Offenbarung Gottes (1913) . . . A revised and augmented version of this apologetical monograph was published in an English translation as Primitive Revelation (Sharpe 1939)."[6]
See also
Notes
- JSTOR 1179031.
- ^ "Wilhelm Schmidt SVD". Anthropos. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
- JSTOR 663819.
- ^ Der Ursprung der Gottesidee. Eine historisch-kritische und positive Studie. 12 volumes (1912–1955). Aschendorff, Münster.
- ^ Armstrong, Karen A History of God p. 3
- ^ Sharpe, Eric J. Comparative Religion: A History. 1975. 2nd ed. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1986. 180.
References
- An Vandenberghe, "Entre mission et science. La recherche ethnologique du père Wilhelm Schmidt SVD et le Vatican (1900-1939)", Sciences sociales et missions, N°19/December 2006, pp. 15–36
- Schmidt, Wilhelm. 1906. "Die Mon–Khmer-Völker, ein Bindeglied zwischen Völkern Zentralasiens und Austronesiens", 'The Mon–Khmer peoples, a link between the peoples of Central Asia and Austronesia'. Archiv für Anthropologie, Braunschweig, new series, 5:59-109.
- Schmidt, Wilhelm. 1930. "Die Beziehungen der austrischen Sprachen zum Japanischen", 'The Connections of the Austric Languages to Japanese'. Wien Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte und Linguistik 1:239-51.
- Peter Rohrbacher, Völkerkunde und Afrikanistik für den Papst. Missionsexperten und der Vatikan 1922–1939 In: Römische Historische Mitteilungen 54 (2012), 583–610.
- Peter Rohrbacher, Pater Wilhelm Schmidt im Schweizer Exil: Interaktionen mit Wehrmachtsdeserteuren und Nachrichtendiensten, 1943–1945 In: Paideuma. Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde 62, 203–221.
- Peter Rohrbacher, Pater Wilhelm Schmidt und Sigmund Freud: Gesellschaftliche Kontexte einer religionsethnologischen Kontroverse in der Zwischenkriegszeit In: cultura & psyché – Journal of Cultural Psychology Vol. 1, 2020.
- Peter Rohrbacher: Österreichische Missionsexperten und das Ringen um den vatikanischen Standpunkt im „Rassendiskurs“ der Zwischenkriegszeit In: Römische Historische Mitteilungen 62 (2020), 221–248.
- Peter Rohrbacher: Pater Wilhelm Schmidt im Schweizer Exil: Interaktionen mit Wehrmachtsdeserteuren und Nachrichtendiensten, 1943–1945 In: Andre Gingrich; Peter Rohrbacher (Hg.), Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien (1938–1945): Institutionen, Biographien und Praktiken in Netzwerken. Wien: OEAW 2021/3, S. 1611–1642.
External links
- Schmidt, Wilhelm; Barnes, W. D. (June 1903). "Schmidt's Sakai and Semang Languages". Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. No. 39. Singapore. pp. 38–45.
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