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The Anthropos-Bibliothek ("Anthropos Library"), with French title: Bibliothèque Anthropos, is a Catholic series of publications in religious studies, ethnology, and linguistics. It was issued in connection with the journal Anthropos – Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde (International Review of Ethnology and Linguistics) and was originally intended as a platform for Catholic missionary scholarship. The first volumes were published in Münster (Münster i. W.), where Joseph Schmidlin (1876–1944), one of the founders of Catholic mission studies, taught. In 1911, the same publisher (Aschendorff) also launched the Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft. The series contains substantial monographic studies, often representing the life's work of scholars from various religious orders as well as lay researchers. More than thirty volumes were published. The Anthropos Library was founded by the SVD Fathers Wilhelm Schmidt and Wilhelm Koppers, leading representatives of the Vienna School of Ethnology, a Catholic-theological variant of the “culture-circle theory” (Kulturkreislehre). Their key concepts include Urmonotheismus, Hochgott belief, and Urreligion. From 1909 onward the series appeared in Münster at Aschendorff, with two subseries: the Ethnological Anthropos Library (Bibliothèque ethnologique Anthropos) and the Linguistic Anthropos Library (Bibliothèque linguistique Anthropos). It was later also published at St. Gabriel, Mödling by the international journal Anthropos. Within the series' Expedition volumes, three volumes on the indigenous inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego ("Feuerland-Indianer") by the missionary-ethnologist Martin Gusinde (Die Selk'nam, Die Yamana, and Anthropologie der Feuerland-Indianer) appeared in 1931, 1937, and 1939. The series continued until the beginning of the Second World War. The last known volume was Paul Arndt’s Soziale Verhältnisse auf Ost-Flores, Adonate und Solor (Münster, 1940; Ethnologische Anthropos-Bibliothek, vol. 4, fasc. 2). The volumes of the Anthropos Library (and its subseries) are not to be confused with the journal Anthropos (published since 1906) or with the later Anthropos-Bibliothek held at the Mission House St. Augustin. In a 1956 article in Anthropos, titled “Professor Pater Wilhelm Schmidt S.V.D. – A Tribute to His Life’s Work”, Wilhelm Koppers wrote (here in English translation):
It did not take long before W. Schmidt found himself compelled to create new possibilities for publication. He established a linguistic and ethnological “Anthropos” Library, within which the larger monographic works (often representing the life’s work of missionary and lay researchers) were to be published. By the year 1938, more than thirty volumes had been issued in this way. In order to train researchers in the field—especially missionaries—more effectively and to introduce them systematically to the problems that were foremost at the time, and furthermore to bring scholars at home into a lively and fruitful contact with the researchers in the field, Schmidt, together with the French Jesuit Fr. Bouvier (who was later succeeded by P. Henri Pinard de la Boullaye), initiated International Courses for the Ethnology of Religion. These courses were successfully held five times between 1922 and 1929—twice in Leuven, and once each in Tilburg, Milan, and Luxembourg.
W. Schmidt had concluded his work on the Pygmies published in 1910 with an urgent call for research on the pygmies.
== Volumes (selection) == The following overview of individual volumes of the Anthropos Library is not exhaustive. (“I.1” = vol. 1, fasc. 1 / French: Tom. I, Fasc. 1.)
=== Ethnologische Anthropos-Bibliothek === Ethnologische Anthropos-Bibliothek: Internationale Sammlung ethnologischer Monographien (Bibliothèque ethnologique Anthropos: Collection internationale de monographies ethnologiques): Volume I
I.1 Meier, P. Jos. M.S.C.: Mythen und Erzählungen der Küstenbewohner der Gazelle-Halbinsel (Neu-Pommern). Im Urtext aufgezeichnet und ins Deutsche übertragen. Münster: Aschendorffsche Buchhandlung 1909. Mit einem Vorwort von P. W. Schmidt, S.V.D. (digital copy) I.2 Jos. Henry: Les Bambara: L'âme d'un peuple africain ; Leur vie psychique, éthique, sociale, religieuse. Münster: Aschendorff 1910. I.3 Gerhard Peekel: Religion und Zauberei auf dem mittleren Neu-Mecklenburg (Bismarck-Archipel, Südsee). 1910 (digital copy) I.4 Henry Trilles: Le Totémisme chez les Fân. Par le R. P. H. Trilles. Avec préf. de A. LeRoy. Münster: Aschendorff 1912. (digital copy) I.5 Alfred Liétard: Au Yun-Nan. Les Lo-Lo P'o. Une tribu des aboriginales de la Chine Méridionale. Münster, Aschendorff, 1913. Volume II
II.1 P. A. Erdland: Die Marshall-Insulaner: Leben und Sitte, Sinn und Religion eines Südsee-Volkes. Münster i. W. 1914 (digital copy) II.2 Friedrich J. Bieber: Kaffa, ein altkuschitisches Volkstum in Inner-Afrika: Nachrichten über Land und Volk, Brauch und Sitte der Kaffitscho oder Gouga und das Kaiserreich Kaffa: Band 1: Das Eigenleben der Kaffitscho oder Gonga. Münster i. W., Aschendorff 1920 (digital copy, Band I) II.3 Friedrich J. Bieber: Kaffa, ein altkuschitisches Volkstum in Inner-Afrika. Band 2: Das Gemeinleben der Kaffitscho oder Gonga, Wien 1923, St. Gabriel, Mödling bei Wien, Verlag der Administration des Anthropos II.5 Wilhelm Hofmayr: Die Schilluk: Geschichte, Religion und Leben eines Niloten-Stammes. Nach P. Banholzers und eigenen Aufzeichnungen dargestellt von Wilhelm Hofmayr. St. Gabriel, Mödling bei Wien, Verlag der Administration des Anthropos 1925 Volume III
III.1 Laurentius Bollig: Die Bewohner der Truk-Inseln: Religion, Leben und kurze Grammatik eines Mikronesiervolkes. Münster i.W., Aschendorff, 1927. III.2 Fr. Bösch: Les Banyamwezi. Peuple de l'Afrique Orientale. Münster: Aschendorff 1930 III.3 Paul Leser: Entstehung und Verbreitung des Pfluges. Mit 351 Abbildungen im Satz und 42 auf Tafeln. Münster, Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1931. III.4 Henry Trilles: Les Pygmées de la forêt équatoriale: Cours professé à l'Institut catholique de Paris. Avec une préface du R. P. Pinard de la Boullaye, S. J., et introduction du R. P. Schmidt, S. V. D. Paris: Bloud & Gay - Münster: Aschendorff 1932. digital copy III.5 Heinz Reschke: Linguistische Untersuchung der Mythologie und Initiation in Neuguinea. Münster: Aschendorffsche Verl.-buchhandlung, 1935 (Diss. 1934). Volume 4
IV.1 Bernhard Andreas Gregorius Vroklage: Die sozialen Verhältnisse Indonesiens. Teil: Bd. 1., Borneo, Celebes und Molukken. Münster: Aschendorff. 1936. IV.2 Paul Arndt: Soziale Verhältnisse auf Ost-Flores, Adonate und Solor. Münster: Aschendorff 1940.
=== Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek === Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek (Internationale Sammlung linguistischer Monographien)