Background
He was born in Eiweiler, in the Nohfelden municipality of the Saarland.
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Dominik Schroder
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He worked as a missionary in China from 1938 to 1949. He obtained an Master of Arts from Fujen University in Beijing in 1945. He was active in the Anthropos-Institut in Fribourg, and undertook research on the Kham people, and the oral poetry of the Monguor people (蒙古尔).
He translated the chapter on Folklore from the Xīkāng Tújīng (西康圖經:1934), a work by the Chinese scholar Rèn Nǎiqiáng (任乃強) who pioneered studies on the Gesar epic.
From 1946 to 1949 he resided among the Huzhu Monguor people. He returned to Europe in 1949 to pursue his studies in anthropology at both Fribourg and Frankfurt, and obtained a doctorate in 1951.
His inaugural dissertation, "Zur Religion der Tujen des Sininggebietes (Kukunor)," published in 1953 was an important addition to a little-known field of ethnology. He was appointed professor of ethnology at Nanzan University in Nagoya in 1960, a position he held until 1969.
While in Japan, he made several trips to Taiwan to conduct fieldwork among the shamanizing ‘poringao’ women of the aboriginal Puyuma people.
His research notes were edited and published posthumously by Anton Quack. He collected invaluable materials on the Gesar epic as conserved among the Monguor. Walther Heissig: Geser Redzia-wu.
Dominik Schröders nachgelassene Monguor(Tujen)-Version des Geser-Epos aus Amdo.
(Asiatische Forschungen, Band 70) Wiesbaden 1980,
Dominik. Schröder by A. Burgmann, "P. Dominik Schröder SVD (1910–1974)", Anthropos 70 (1975), pp.
1–4
Harald Grauer (2012). "Schröder, Dominik". In Bautz, Traugott.
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 33.
Nordhausen: Bautz.
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Germany