Anthropos-Bibliothek


The Anthropos-Bibliothek, with French title: Bibliothèque Anthropos, is a Catholic series of publications in religious studies, ethnology, and linguistics. It was issued in connection with the journal Anthropos – Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde and was originally intended as a platform for [Roman Catholic Church|Catholic Church|Catholic] missionary scholarship.
The first volumes were published in Münster, where Joseph Schmidlin, one of the founders of Catholic mission studies, taught. In 1911, the same publisher also launched the Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft.
The series contains substantial monographic studies, often representing the life's work of scholars from various religious orders as well as lay researchers. More than thirty volumes were published.
The Anthropos Library was founded by the SVD Fathers Wilhelm Schmidt and Wilhelm Koppers, leading representatives of the Vienna School of Ethnology, a Catholic-theological variant of the “culture-circle theory”. Their key concepts include Urmonotheismus, Hochgott belief, and Urreligion.
From 1909 onward the series appeared in Münster at Aschendorff, with two subseries: the Ethnological Anthropos Library and the Linguistic Anthropos Library. It was later also published at St. Gabriel, Mödling by the international journal Anthropos.
Within the series' Expedition volumes, three volumes on the indigenous inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego by the missionary-ethnologist Martin Gusinde appeared in 1931, 1937, and 1939.
The series continued until the beginning of the Second World War. The last known volume was Paul Arndt’s Soziale Verhältnisse auf Ost-Flores, Adonate und Solor.
The volumes of the Anthropos Library are not to be confused with the journal Anthropos or with the later Anthropos-Bibliothek held at the Mission House St. Augustin.
In a 1956 article in Anthropos, titled “Professor Pater Wilhelm Schmidt S.V.D. – A Tribute to His Life’s Work”, Wilhelm Koppers wrote :

Volumes (selection)

The following overview of individual volumes of the Anthropos Library is not exhaustive.

Ethnologische Anthropos-Bibliothek

Ethnologische Anthropos-Bibliothek: Internationale Sammlung ethnologischer Monographien :
Volume I
  • I.1 Meier, P. Jos. M.S.C.: Mythen und Erzählungen der Küstenbewohner der Gazelle-Halbinsel. Im Urtext aufgezeichnet und ins Deutsche übertragen. Münster: Aschendorffsche Buchhandlung 1909. Mit einem Vorwort von P. W. Schmidt, S.V.D.
  • I.2 Jos. Henry: Les Bambara: L'âme d'un peuple africain ; Leur vie psychique, éthique, sociale, religieuse. Münster: Aschendorff 1910.
  • I.3 Gerhard Peekel: Religion und Zauberei auf dem mittleren Neu-Mecklenburg. 1910
  • I.4 Henry Trilles: Le Totémisme chez les Fân. Par le R. P. H. Trilles. Avec préf. de A. LeRoy. Münster: Aschendorff 1912.
  • I.5 Alfred Liétard: Au Yun-Nan. Les Lo-Lo P'o. Une tribu des aboriginales de la Chine Méridionale. Münster, Aschendorff, 1913.
Volume II
  • II.1 P. A. Erdland: Die Marshall-Insulaner: Leben und Sitte, Sinn und Religion eines Südsee-Volkes. Münster i. W. 1914
  • II.2 Friedrich J. Bieber: Kaffa, ein altkuschitisches Volkstum in Inner-Afrika: Nachrichten über Land und Volk, Brauch und Sitte der Kaffitscho oder Gouga und das Kaiserreich Kaffa: Band 1: Das Eigenleben der Kaffitscho oder Gonga. Münster i. W., Aschendorff 1920
  • II.3 Friedrich J. Bieber: Kaffa, ein altkuschitisches Volkstum in Inner-Afrika. Band 2: Das Gemeinleben der Kaffitscho oder Gonga, Wien 1923, St. Gabriel, Mödling bei Wien, Verlag der Administration des Anthropos
  • II.5 Wilhelm Hofmayr: Die Schilluk: Geschichte, Religion und Leben eines Niloten-Stammes. Nach P. Banholzers und eigenen Aufzeichnungen dargestellt von Wilhelm Hofmayr. St. Gabriel, Mödling bei Wien, Verlag der Administration des Anthropos 1925
Volume III
  • III.1 Laurentius Bollig: Die Bewohner der Truk-Inseln: Religion, Leben und kurze Grammatik eines Mikronesiervolkes. Münster i.W., Aschendorff, 1927.
  • III.2 Fr. Bösch: Les Banyamwezi. Peuple de l'Afrique Orientale. Münster: Aschendorff 1930
  • III.3 Paul Leser: Entstehung und Verbreitung des Pfluges. Mit 351 Abbildungen im Satz und 42 auf Tafeln. Münster, Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1931.
  • III.4 Henry Trilles: Les Pygmées de la forêt équatoriale: Cours professé à l'Institut catholique de Paris. Avec une préface du R. P. Pinard de la Boullaye, S. J., et introduction du R. P. Schmidt, S. V. D. Paris: Bloud & Gay - Münster: Aschendorff 1932.
  • III.5 Heinz Reschke: Linguistische Untersuchung der Mythologie und Initiation in Neuguinea. Münster: Aschendorffsche Verl.-buchhandlung, 1935.
Volume 4
  • IV.1 Bernhard Andreas Gregorius Vroklage: Die sozialen Verhältnisse Indonesiens. Teil: Bd. 1., Borneo, Celebes und Molukken. Münster: Aschendorff. 1936.
  • IV.2 Paul Arndt: Soziale Verhältnisse auf Ost-Flores, Adonate und Solor. Münster: Aschendorff 1940.

Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek

Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek
  • I: P. Fr. Vormann, S. V. D., und P. Wilh. Scharfenberg, S. V. D.: Die Monumbo-Sprache. Grammatik und Wörterverzeichnis. Mit Einleitung und Anhang von P. F. Hestermann. Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei, Wien, 1914
  • II: P. A. Grignard, S. J.: An Oraon-English Dictionary in the roman character with numerous phrases illustrative of sense and idiom and notes on tribal customs, beliefs etc., St. Gabriel-Mödling: Admin. d. Anthropos 1924
  • III: P. A. Moreira, S. J.: Grammatical Notes of the Sena Language.
  • IV: P. Dr. G. Royen, O. F. M.: Die nominalen Klassifikationssysteme in den Sprachen der Erde. Mödling b. Wien: Admin. d. Anthropos 1929
  • V: Mullie, Jos. Het Chineesch taaleigen: inleiding tot de gesprokene taal . Vol. 1. Vol. I. . Mödling b. Wien: Verl. d. "Anthropos" 1932.
  • X: P. A. G. Morice, O. M. I.: The Carrier Language. Vol. II. Mödling b. Wien: Verl. d. "Anthropos" 1932.
  • XI: P. Chrysost. Stromer, O. F. M.: Die Sprache der Mundurukú. Wörterbuch, Grammatik und Texte eines Indianeridioms am oberen Tapajoz, Amazonasgebiet. Mödling: Verl. d. internat. Zeitschrift "Anthropos", 1932
  • XII: P. Mor. Vanoverbergh, C.I.C.M.: A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay as it is spoken at Bauco. Mödling: "Anthropos", 1933
  • XIII: P. J. P. Crazzolara, F. S. C.: Outlines of a Nuer Grammar. Mödling: "Anthropos", 1933
  • XIV Gertrud Kettler : Das Verbum finitum in der altgeorgischen Übersetzung des Markus-Evangeliums. Münster i. Westf. 1938.

Expeditionsserie

  • Martin Gusinde: Die Feuerland-Indianer. Mödling bei Wien: Verl. d. Internat. Zeitsch. "Anthropos"

Glossary (Anthropos)

The following glossary provides a brief overview of the various “Anthropos” locations associated with the publication of the Anthropos-Bibliothek. These sites formed — and in some cases still form — central institutions for ethnological and missionary-science research, particularly within the SVD.
;Anthropos
Anthropos – Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde. Published by the Anthropos Institute, St. Augustin, since 1906, Anthropos is an internationally recognized journal of ethnology and linguistics, founded by Wilhelm Schmidt. It serves to publish research in ethnology, linguistics, and missionary studies. Initially, it was issued on behalf of the Austrian Leo Society, with support from the German Görres Society, and involved contributions from numerous missionaries under the direction of P. W. Schmidt. –
;Anthropos-Bibliothek
A monographic series in ethnology, linguistics, and religious studies published in connection with the journal Anthropos. – Subject of the main article.
;St. Gabriel
The Missionshaus St. Gabriel in Maria Enzersdorf near Vienna, an important center of the Divine Word Missionaries and one of the early institutional bases of the Anthropos enterprises.
;Anthropos-Bibliothek. Mödling bei Wien
A scientific library maintained by the publishing house of Anthropos in Mödling, collecting and issuing ethnological works.
;Anthropos-Bibliothek St. Augustin
After the relocation of Anthropos institutions to St. Augustin, an additional major ethnological library was established here as part of the Anthropos Institute.
;Aschendorffsche Buchhandlung
The Aschendorff publishing house and bookshop in Münster i. Westf., the original publisher of many early Anthropos volumes.
;Anthropos-Institut
Founded at the Missionshaus St. Augustin, serving as a research institute for ethnology and missionary studies. Since 1962 this has been the institutional home of the Anthropos journal and its associated collections.
;Anthropos. St. Gabriel-Mödling
Refers to the Anthropos Institute originally founded in 1931 at St. Gabriel near Vienna, the early home of the journal Anthropos and its research library.
;Anthropos-Institut im Château de Froideville, Posieux
The Anthropos Institute located in Château de Froideville, Posieux, active from 1938 to 1962.
;Anthropos. Wien: Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei
A former printing location of the Anthropos journal, operated by the scholarly Mekhitarists printing house in Vienna.
;Academia Verlag
The Academia Verlag took over the Anthropos journal in 2018; since then it has been an imprint of the Nomos Publishing Group.
;Lehrstuhl und Institut für Ethnologie an der Universität Freiburg
The chair and Institute of Ethnology at the University of Fribourg, established in 1942 by Wilhelm Schmidt, institutionally linked to the Anthropos Institute.
;Vienna / Wien
See: St. Gabriel–Mödling; Mekhitarists Printing House.
;Drukkerij der Lazaristen
The Lazarist printing house in Beijing, which printed various missionary publications; active also in producing early material related to the Anthropos network.

Abbreviations

The following list of abbreviations primarily provides the order initials used on title pages and elsewhere :