Ekkehard Hübschmann (born 1957) is a German socio-anthropologist, historian and genealogist.
After a school career in Sparneck, Münchberg, Gefrees, Nuremberg and Hamburg, Germany, Hübschmann studied Socio-Anthropology and Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth. His Master’s thesis answered the question What can be understood from today's point of view under Megalithism in Southeast Asia?, This provided him the opportunity to visit that continent for the first time in order to visit megalithic sites in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
His professional work at the University of Bayreuth deepened his scientific thinking. research project The Correspondence of Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848) acquainted him with edition sciences and the transliteration of letters from the 19th century. In the linguistic project Language Atlas of Northeast Bavaria, he worked for several years as an explorer, immersing himself in German dialectology. He realized the importance of recording the professional terms and workflows of the handweavers of North East Upper Franconia, West Bohemia and Saxonian Vogtland, as long as contemporary witnesses could give account. His PhD thesis is dedicated to this mission, following initially the methods of language atlases and oral history.
Huebschmann, supervised by Prof. Gerd Spittler, added Spittler’s focus on the ethnology of work as another central approach to his research. All work processes as well as the organisation of the work within families are described from the handweavers' perspective as acting persons within the meaning of Max Weber. The dissertation, submitted in 2004 in the discipline of ethnology (socio-anthropology) at the University of Bayreuth, interdisciplinarily combines the Ethnology of Work with German dialectology (German linguistics).
Since 1990 — initially in the context of the Bayreuth Historical Workshop and his long-term project the History of the Jewish Bayreuth Citizens 1759-1945 — Hübschmann has been pursuing another central research interest, namely, Research on the Franconian Jewish History in the Late Modern Period. Key topics are emancipation in the early 19th century, emigration, National Socialist persecution of Jews, deportation, commemoration of victims, restitution & compensation and family history.
In June 2007, Hübschmann started his own freelancing business as a researcher in the fields of genealogy, family history, and transliteration of texts in old German script ( Kurrent). Since then, he has carried out numerous genealogical and historical projects mainly in Germany, as well as in Poland and Bohemia. From 2008 onwards he has conducted conference and research trips to the USA, Poland, France and Israel. Since 2012 he lectures at conferences of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. [1] He also is a member of the International German Genealogy Partnership. [2]
As in his doctoral thesis, Hübschmann is also guided in the research projects by the conviction that man must be the centre of all considerations and descriptions. Thus, he regards genealogical research in order to gather biographical data essential, but family history goes beyond that. It is most important to find out and to describe as much as possible about the life of individuals.
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hubschmann, Ekkehard}} [[Category:1957 births]] [[Category:People from Upper Franconia]] [[Category:German male writers]] [[Category:20th-century German historians]] [[Category:Living people]]
Ekkehard Hübschmann (born 1957) is a German socio-anthropologist, historian and genealogist.
After a school career in Sparneck, Münchberg, Gefrees, Nuremberg and Hamburg, Germany, Hübschmann studied Socio-Anthropology and Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth. His Master’s thesis answered the question What can be understood from today's point of view under Megalithism in Southeast Asia?, This provided him the opportunity to visit that continent for the first time in order to visit megalithic sites in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
His professional work at the University of Bayreuth deepened his scientific thinking. research project The Correspondence of Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848) acquainted him with edition sciences and the transliteration of letters from the 19th century. In the linguistic project Language Atlas of Northeast Bavaria, he worked for several years as an explorer, immersing himself in German dialectology. He realized the importance of recording the professional terms and workflows of the handweavers of North East Upper Franconia, West Bohemia and Saxonian Vogtland, as long as contemporary witnesses could give account. His PhD thesis is dedicated to this mission, following initially the methods of language atlases and oral history.
Huebschmann, supervised by Prof. Gerd Spittler, added Spittler’s focus on the ethnology of work as another central approach to his research. All work processes as well as the organisation of the work within families are described from the handweavers' perspective as acting persons within the meaning of Max Weber. The dissertation, submitted in 2004 in the discipline of ethnology (socio-anthropology) at the University of Bayreuth, interdisciplinarily combines the Ethnology of Work with German dialectology (German linguistics).
Since 1990 — initially in the context of the Bayreuth Historical Workshop and his long-term project the History of the Jewish Bayreuth Citizens 1759-1945 — Hübschmann has been pursuing another central research interest, namely, Research on the Franconian Jewish History in the Late Modern Period. Key topics are emancipation in the early 19th century, emigration, National Socialist persecution of Jews, deportation, commemoration of victims, restitution & compensation and family history.
In June 2007, Hübschmann started his own freelancing business as a researcher in the fields of genealogy, family history, and transliteration of texts in old German script ( Kurrent). Since then, he has carried out numerous genealogical and historical projects mainly in Germany, as well as in Poland and Bohemia. From 2008 onwards he has conducted conference and research trips to the USA, Poland, France and Israel. Since 2012 he lectures at conferences of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. [1] He also is a member of the International German Genealogy Partnership. [2]
As in his doctoral thesis, Hübschmann is also guided in the research projects by the conviction that man must be the centre of all considerations and descriptions. Thus, he regards genealogical research in order to gather biographical data essential, but family history goes beyond that. It is most important to find out and to describe as much as possible about the life of individuals.
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hubschmann, Ekkehard}} [[Category:1957 births]] [[Category:People from Upper Franconia]] [[Category:German male writers]] [[Category:20th-century German historians]] [[Category:Living people]]