Fritz Krause

Prof. Dr Fritz Krause
Born	1881
Died	1963
Residence	Weinligstrasse 14, Leipzig, N22
Occupation	ethnologist
Society Membership membership Hon. Fellow left 1948 death reported, yet he appears to have lived until 1963 elected_AI 1935.01.22

Notes

House Notes

1933.12.12 The following were nominated as Honorary Fellows: Dr Laufer, Dr Lowie, Dr Krause, Prof. Thomas Thomsen, Dr Mollison, Prof. Menghin, Dr Akiro Matsumura, Mr S. Lothrop.
1934.12.11 On the motion of the Treasurer seconded by Dr Harrison it was resolved to elect only two Hon. Fellows. The following were nominated: Dr Krause, Dr Mollison, Prof. Menghin, Prof. Thilenius, Baron von Eickstedt and Dr Kleiweg de Zwaan.
1948.03.02 It was reported that information had been received of the death, at dates unspecified, of the following Hon. Fellows: Dr G. Friederici (Germany), Prof. F. Krause (Germany), Dr M. Uhle (Germany)

Notes From Elsewhere

Krause, Fritz, Weinligstrasse 14, Leipzig N22, Germany; b. 1881, Germany; Phd, Univ. Leipzig 1907, univ. Prof., Univ. of Leipzig, 1925: director, Museums f. Volkerkunde, Leipzig, 1927-, Lecturing at the Univ. Of Leipzig, 1920-; interested in folk-lore, ethnology, Americana, African folklore and ethnology, scientific films and film archives; field trips to central Brazil, 1908-09 [International Dictionary of anthropologists, 1940]

Fritz Krause (born April 23, 1881 in Moritzburg , Germany) was a German ethnologist .
After completing his Abitur, Fritz Krause devoted himself to a study of ethnology at the University of Leipzig , which he received in 1907 with the acquisition of the academic degree of a Dr. phil. Graduating. Already during his studies, he received an assistant position at the Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig in 1905. Krause, who took part in a scientific expedition to Central Brazil in 1908, was appointed department head of the American Department at the Museum of Ethnology Leipzig in 1912, before being given the direction of the museum in 1927.
At the same time he began his scientific career in 1920 with the Habilitation for Ethnology at the University of Leipzig. There, Krause was appointed to the Faculty of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy in the same year, before he was entrusted with an extraordinary professorship in 1925 until his retirement in 1945. Krause, born in 1912, married to Clara Frida, father of three children, a party leader of the NSDAP , who was a convinced party leader during the Nazi era , died in Leipzig in 1963.

Fritz Krause was born in Moritzburg in 1881.

After finishing school he took up his studies of anthropology at the university in Leipzig. Moreover, he held an assistant position at the Ethnological Museum (now: Grassi-Museum for Ethnology) in Leipzig since 1905.

Krause graduated with a Ph D thesis on the Pueblo people in 1907. He participated in an expedition to Central Brazil the following year. Furthermore, Krause became head of the Department for America at the Ethnological Museum in Leipzig in 1912.

In 1920 Krause completed his habilitation thesis. The same year he began lecturing at the university in Leipzig. Five years later he took up a professorship for Anthropology at the university. Moreover, Krause became head chairman of the Ethnological Museum in 1927.

In 1929 Krause was co-founder of the German Association of Anthropologists (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, DGV).

Krause, being member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), held his professorship until 1945. He died in Leipzig in 1963.

Publications

External Publications

The Pueblo Indians. A historical-ethnographical study, dissertation , Leipzig 1907
In the wilds of Brazil. Report and results of the Leipzig Araguaya expedition 1908, Leipzig 1911
The culture of the Californian Indians in their importance for ethnology and North American ethnology, Habilitationsschrift , Leipzig 1921 The economic life of the peoples, Breslau 1924 A memorandum on the design of the Museum for National Customers of Leipzig, 2 Volumes, Leipzig, 1926
Editor of the Ethnological Studies, Leipzig 1929