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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;Wilhelm Schmidt&#039;&#039;&#039; (1868–1954) was a German linguist, anthropologist, and ethnologist. ===Life and contribution=== Wilhelm Schmidt was born in Hörde, Germany in 1868. He entere...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Wilhelm Schmidt''' (1868–1954) was a German linguist, anthropologist, and ethnologist. <br /> <br /> ===Life and contribution===<br /> <br /> Wilhelm Schmidt was born in Hörde, Germany in 1868. He entered the Society of the Divine Word in 1890, and was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1892. He studied linguistics at the universities of Berlin and Vienna.<br /> <br /> His early work in linguistics was on the [[Mon-Khmer]] languages of South East Asia, which led him to hypothesize the existence of a broader [[Austric]] group of languages, connected to the [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]] language group. <br /> <br /> From 1912 on, Schmidt began to publish his 12-volume ''Der Ursprung der Gottesidee'', and developed his theory of primitive [[monotheism]] &amp;mdash; the belief that [[primitive culture|primitive religion]] in almost all tribal peoples began with an essentially monotheistic concept of a high god &amp;mdash; usually a sky god &amp;mdash; who was a benevolent creator.<br /> <br /> In 1906, Schmidt founded the journal [http://www.anthropos-journal.de/ 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. <br /> <br /> ===Works===<br /> <br /> *''The Origin and Growth of Religion'' (1931), <br /> *''High Gods in North America'' (1933), <br /> *''The Culture Historical Method of Ethnology'' (1939) <br /> *''Primitive Revelation'' (1939)<br /> <br /> ===Reference===<br /> *Brandewie, Ernest. 1990. ''When giants walked the earth: the life and times of Wilhelm Schmidt, SVD.'' (Studia Instituti Anthropos ; 44) Fribourg: University Press.<br /> <br /> {{FromWP|en|English|Wilhelm_Schmidt}}<br /> [[Category:En]]<br /> [[Category:BIOG|Schmidt, Wilhelm]]</div>

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