Background
Josef Weninger was born on May 15, 1886 in Salzburg, Austria.
anthropologist university professor
Josef Weninger was born on May 15, 1886 in Salzburg, Austria.
Weninger taught as a professor at the University of Vienna. From 1925, Weninger co-edited the journals Volk und Rasse ("Nation and Race") and Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde ("Journal for Racial Studies"). In 1927, he became the director of the Anthropological Institute in Vienna.
In 1945 he was reinstated as director of the Institute, where he worked until 1957.
Weninger died on March 28, 1959 in Vienna.
Austrian Academy of Sciences]
His assistants were all members of the NSDAP and Weninger hosted their meetings at his home when the party was still illegal in Austria. He became a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and honorary president of the Anthropological Society of Vienna and the Association for European Ethnology of Vienna.