- Berthold Laufer
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birth_place =Cologne ,Germany
death_date = death date and age|1934|9|13|1874|10|11|mf=y
death_place =Chicago ,Illinois
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field =Anthropology Orientalism
work_institution =American Museum of Natrural History Columbia University Field Museum
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footnotes =Berthold Laufer (
October 11 ,1874 –September 13 ,1934 ) was a German-Americananthropologist ,orientalist .Born in
Cologne to a Jewish family, Laufer attended the Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnasium from 1884-1893. He continued his studies in Berlin (1893-1895) and completed his doctorate degree at the University of Leipzig in 1897. The following year he emigrated to the United States where he remained until his death. He carried out ethnographic fieldwork on theAmur River andSakhalin Island during 1898-1899 as part of theJesup North Pacific Expedition . He worked as assistant in Ethnology at theAmerican Museum of Natural History (1904-1906), became a lecturer in Anthropology and East-Asiatic Languages atColumbia University (1905-1907). The rest of his career he spent at theField Museum in Chicago. (cf. obituary JAOS 55.4 (1934): 349-362). He died upon leaping from the roof of the hotel in which he lived in Chicago.Literary works
* 1899 "Petroglyphs on the Amoor", Oct. 1899
* 1909 "Chinesepottery of the Han-dynasty", 1909
* 1911 "Jade ", 1911 http://www.archive.org/details/fieldiana10chicuoft
* 1914 "Chineseclay figure ", 1914
* 1915 "Thediamond ", 1915 http://www.archive.org/details/fieldiana15chicuoft
* 1917 "The Beginnings ofPorcelain inChina ", 1917 http://www.archive.org/details/fieldiana15chicuoftWorks in Tibetan Studies
*1898-9. “Über das va zur. Ein Beitrag zur Phonetik der tibtischen Sprache”. "Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes" 12: 289-307. 13: 95ff.
*1914. “Bird divination among the Tibetans (notes on document Pelliot no 3530, with a study of Tibetan phonology of the ninth century)” "T’oung Pao" 15. (1914): 1-110; Hartmut Walravens and Lokesh Chandra, eds. "Sino-Tibetan Studies", vol 2. New Delhi: Rakesh Goel, 1987: 354-463.
*1916–18. “Loan Words in Tibetan,” "T’oung Pao" 17, 404-552; Hartmut Walravens and Lokesh Candra, eds. "Sino-Tibetan Studies". Vol 2. New Delhi: Rakesh Goel, 1987: 483-632.Collections
* "Kleinere Schriften von Berthold Laufer." Hartmut Walravens, ed. (Sinologica Coloniensia ; Bd. 2, 7, 13). Wiesbaden : Steiner, 1976-1992. 3 volumes. (a collection of many of his essays and many relevant documents)
*"Sino-Tibetan Studies". Hartmut Walravens and Lokesh Candra, eds. 2 vols. New Delhi: Rakesh Goel, 1987External links
* [http://anthro.amnh.org/anthro.html Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History] - Objects from Laufer China Expedition 1901-1904 (section Collections Online, option "Collections Highlights").
* [http://www.fieldmuseum.org/museum_info/press/press_qianlong_china.htm Field Museum press release Berthold Laufer, Father of the Collection]
* [http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/library/hist_collectors.htm Field Museum Library Special Collections Laufer Materials] The Library of the Field Museum contains many of the print materials from Laufer's personal collections. [http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/library/harlow.htm Search the Library Card Catalog]
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