Background
LEHMANN-NITSCHE, Paul was born on November 9, 1872 in Radomitz, Province of Posen, Germany. Son of Adolfo Lehmann-Nitsche and Ida Stephan.
anthropologist university professor
LEHMANN-NITSCHE, Paul was born on November 9, 1872 in Radomitz, Province of Posen, Germany. Son of Adolfo Lehmann-Nitsche and Ida Stephan.
Chief of the Section of Anthropology of the Museum of Louisiana Plata, 1897-1930. Titular professor of anthropology in the University of Buenos Aires, 1905-1930 (first incumbent of this chair, at that time unique in South America). Professor of the “science of man" in the University of Louisiana Plata, 1906-1930.
In connection with his activities in the Museum of Louisiana Plata, Doctor Lehmann-Nitsche assembled some 2000 remains of Araucanian and other Indian stocks of the Pampean and Patagonian regions.
He was able to draw up a vocabulary and the basis of the grammar of the Puelches Indians. As a result of these and allied investigations the site of the Temple of the Sun in Cuzco was discovered.
In 1930 he repaired to Berlin for the completion of his researches. His immense private library, at present housed in the Ibero-American Institute of Berlin, is open to the public.
Corresponding member of the anthropological societies of Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Florence, Rome, Stockholm, and Moscow. Honorary member of various scientific institutes of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, Perú, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and the United States (Anthropological Society of America). Also of the academies of Córdoba (Argentina), Caracas, Coruña (Academia Gallega), Santiago de Chile, Madrid (Academia de la Historia), Helsingfors.
Married Juliana Dillenius (of the family of the famous botanist Dillenius, contemporary of Linnaeus). Children: Hiltrud, Gótz, Gudrun, Helga, and Gisela.