Holger Stoecker
Biographic Data
| ID | 382326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holger Stoecker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holger |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoecker |
| SIGNATURE | STOECKER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-8556-4468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dinosaurs and Provenance: The Colonial Legacy of the Tendaguru Fossils, 1909–2023
Deconstructing Dinosaurs: The History of the German Tendaguru Expedition and Its Finds, 1906-2023
Community Awareness and Restitution of Isanzu Ancestors' Human Remains from the University of Göttingen Collections to Mkalama District, Tanzania
This paper investigates the restitution of Tanzanian human remains from colonial contexts in the Anthropological Collection at the University of Göttingen, Germany. This collection contains 66 human remains from Tanzania whereby 22 of them are from the Isanzu ethnic group. This paper focuses on the Isanzu human remains from Mkalama District in Singida Region and examines the circumstances of acquisition and their historical background. This inter…
S tefan E sselborn . Die Afrikaexperten: Das Internationale Afrikainstitut und die europäische Afrikanistik, 1926–1976
The International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, since 1942 the International African Institute (IAI), was of eminent importance for the development of African studies in the interwar years. Founded in London in 1926 to coordinate European research on Africa and to provide a wide range of information for interested circles in science, politics, mission, and business, it gained a key position in the linguistic and anthropological res…
The Mkwawa complex: A Tanzanian-European history about provenance, restitution, and politics
On the skull as a war trophy, see S. Harrison, Dark Trophies
Skulls and skeletons from Namibia in Berlin
From 2010 to 2013 the Charité Human Remains Project researched the provenance of the remains of fifty-seven men and women from the then colony of German South West Africa. They were collected during German colonial rule, especially but not only during the colonial war 1904-8. The remains were identified in anthropological collections of academic institutions in Berlin. The article describes the history of these collections, the aims, methods and …
Re-individualising human remains from Namibia
In 1885, the Berlin pathologist Rudolf Virchow presented three human skeletons from the colony of German South West Africa to the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. The remains had been looted from a grave by a young German scientist, Waldemar Belck, who was a member of the second Lüderitz expedition and took part in the occupation of colonial territory. In an attempt to re-individualise and re-humanise these human remains…
The advancement of African studies in Berlin by the ‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’, 1920–1945
The 1920s were a dramatic period for African studies in Germany. This chapter focuses on a set of questions intended to assess how the power of the Notgemeinschaft/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) refashioned African Studies in Germany during the interwar period. The Notgemeinschaft counted fifty-seven members, all exclusively scientific institutions. When the Notgemeinschaft was founded, Wissenschaft had been divided into at first twenty, t…
Vom Amazonas an die Ostfront: Der Expeditionsreisende und Geograph Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel (1910-1989)
Der Zoologe und Geograph Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel unternahm in den 1930er-Jahren medienwirksam inszenierte Expeditionen nach Afrika und an den Amazonas. Im »Dritten Reich« avancierte er zum Südamerika-Experten der SS und deklarierte die Eroberung der »letzten weißen Flecken« der Erde für »Großdeutschland« als sein Lebensziel. Als Leiter eines militärischen Sonderkommandos und Beauftragter für erdkundliche Forschung gelangte er in geheimen Missione…
Die Jagd auf letzte „weiße Flecken der Erde“: Stationen eines juvenilen Expeditionsreisenden, 1910–1941
Skulls and skeletons from Namibia in Berlin
From 2010 to 2013 the Charité Human Remains Project researched the provenance of the remains of fifty-seven men and women from the then colony of German South West Africa. They were collected during German colonial rule, especially but not only during the colonial war 1904-8. The remains were identified in anthropological collections of academic institutions in Berlin. The article describes the history of these collections, the aims, methods and …
Community Awareness and Restitution of Isanzu Ancestors' Human Remains from the University of Göttingen Collections to Mkalama District, Tanzania
This paper investigates the restitution of Tanzanian human remains from colonial contexts in the Anthropological Collection at the University of Göttingen, Germany. This collection contains 66 human remains from Tanzania whereby 22 of them are from the Isanzu ethnic group. This paper focuses on the Isanzu human remains from Mkalama District in Singida Region and examines the circumstances of acquisition and their historical background. This inter…
The Mkwawa complex: A Tanzanian-European history about provenance, restitution, and politics
On the skull as a war trophy, see S. Harrison, Dark Trophies
Re-individualising human remains from Namibia
In 1885, the Berlin pathologist Rudolf Virchow presented three human skeletons from the colony of German South West Africa to the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. The remains had been looted from a grave by a young German scientist, Waldemar Belck, who was a member of the second Lüderitz expedition and took part in the occupation of colonial territory. In an attempt to re-individualise and re-humanise these human remains…
Vom Amazonas an die Ostfront: Der Expeditionsreisende und Geograph Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel (1910-1989)
Der Zoologe und Geograph Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel unternahm in den 1930er-Jahren medienwirksam inszenierte Expeditionen nach Afrika und an den Amazonas. Im »Dritten Reich« avancierte er zum Südamerika-Experten der SS und deklarierte die Eroberung der »letzten weißen Flecken« der Erde für »Großdeutschland« als sein Lebensziel. Als Leiter eines militärischen Sonderkommandos und Beauftragter für erdkundliche Forschung gelangte er in geheimen Missione…
Die Jagd auf letzte „weiße Flecken der Erde“: Stationen eines juvenilen Expeditionsreisenden, 1910–1941
The advancement of African studies in Berlin by the ‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’, 1920–1945
The 1920s were a dramatic period for African studies in Germany. This chapter focuses on a set of questions intended to assess how the power of the Notgemeinschaft/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) refashioned African Studies in Germany during the interwar period. The Notgemeinschaft counted fifty-seven members, all exclusively scientific institutions. When the Notgemeinschaft was founded, Wissenschaft had been divided into at first twenty, t…
Skulls and skeletons from Namibia in Berlin
From 2010 to 2013 the Charité Human Remains Project researched the provenance of the remains of fifty-seven men and women from the then colony of German South West Africa. They were collected during German colonial rule, especially but not only during the colonial war 1904-8. The remains were identified in anthropological collections of academic institutions in Berlin. The article describes the history of these collections, the aims, methods and …
Re-individualising human remains from Namibia
In 1885, the Berlin pathologist Rudolf Virchow presented three human skeletons from the colony of German South West Africa to the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. The remains had been looted from a grave by a young German scientist, Waldemar Belck, who was a member of the second Lüderitz expedition and took part in the occupation of colonial territory. In an attempt to re-individualise and re-humanise these human remains…
S tefan E sselborn . Die Afrikaexperten: Das Internationale Afrikainstitut und die europäische Afrikanistik, 1926–1976
The International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, since 1942 the International African Institute (IAI), was of eminent importance for the development of African studies in the interwar years. Founded in London in 1926 to coordinate European research on Africa and to provide a wide range of information for interested circles in science, politics, mission, and business, it gained a key position in the linguistic and anthropological res…
The Mkwawa complex: A Tanzanian-European history about provenance, restitution, and politics
On the skull as a war trophy, see S. Harrison, Dark Trophies
Community Awareness and Restitution of Isanzu Ancestors' Human Remains from the University of Göttingen Collections to Mkalama District, Tanzania
This paper investigates the restitution of Tanzanian human remains from colonial contexts in the Anthropological Collection at the University of Göttingen, Germany. This collection contains 66 human remains from Tanzania whereby 22 of them are from the Isanzu ethnic group. This paper focuses on the Isanzu human remains from Mkalama District in Singida Region and examines the circumstances of acquisition and their historical background. This inter…
Dinosaurs and Provenance: The Colonial Legacy of the Tendaguru Fossils, 1909–2023
Deconstructing Dinosaurs: The History of the German Tendaguru Expedition and Its Finds, 1906-2023
Colonialism (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)