Leo Frobenius
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| Born | 29 June 1873 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 9 August 1938 (aged 65) Biganzolo, Piedmont, Italy |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Ethnology |
| Influenced |
Adolf Ellegard Jensen Joseph Campbell Oswald Spengler Ezra Pound Aimé Césaire Léopold Sédar Senghor |
Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) was an ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography.
He was born in Berlin as the son of a Prussian officer and died in Biganzolo, Lago Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. He undertook his first expedition to Africa in 1904 to the Kasai district in Congo, formulating the African Atlantis theory during his travels.
During World War I in 1916/1917, Leo Frobenius spent almost an entire year in Romania, travelling with the German army for scientific purposes. His team performed archaeological and ethnographic studies in the country, as well as documenting the day-to-day life of the ethnically diverse inmates of the Slobozia prisoner camp. Numerous photographic and drawing evidences of this period exist in the image archive of the Frobenius Institute
Until 1918 he travelled in the western and central Sudan, and in northern and northeastern Africa. In 1920 he founded the Institute for Cultural Morphology in Munich.
Frobenius taught at the University of Frankfurt. In 1925, the city acquired his collection of about 4700 prehistorical African stone paintings, which are currently at the University's institute of ethnology, which was named the Frobenius Institute in his honour in 1946.
In 1932 he became honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt, and in 1935 director of the municipal ethnographic museum.
Frobenius was influenced by Richard Andree, and his own teacher Friedrich Ratzel.
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