Berthold Laufer (October 11, 1874 – September 13, 1934) was a German-American anthropologist and orientalist. Laufer was born in Cologne to a Jewish family. He attended the Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnasium from 1884-1893. He continued his studies in Berlin (1893–1895) and completed his doctorate degree at the University of Leipzig in 1897. The following year he emigrated to the United States where he remained until his death.

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  • Berthold Laufer war ein deutscher Anthropologe, Sinologe und Ostasienforscher.
  • Berthold Laufer (October 11, 1874 – September 13, 1934) was a German-American anthropologist and orientalist. Laufer was born in Cologne to a Jewish family. He attended the Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnasium from 1884-1893. He continued his studies in Berlin (1893–1895) and completed his doctorate degree at the University of Leipzig in 1897. The following year he emigrated to the United States where he remained until his death. He carried out ethnographic fieldwork on the Amur River and Sakhalin Island during 1898-1899 as part of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. He worked as assistant in Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History (1904–1906), became a lecturer in Anthropology and East-Asiatic Languages at Columbia University (1905–1907). The rest of his career he spent at the Field Museum in Chicago. . He died upon leaping from the roof of the hotel in which he lived in Chicago. From "Lasting Impressions: Chinese Rubbings from the Field Museum" Brochure (The Field Museum of Chicago) When Berhold Laufer came to The Field Museum in 1908, he was one of the few scholars in America who could speak and write the Chinese language fluently. He made the study of the Chinese language and culture his life's work. "I have come to love the land and the people," he once wrote. "I feel myself to be better and healthier as a Chinese than as a European. " As Curator of Asian Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at the Field, he made two major expeditions to China in 1908 and 1923, and his acquisitions form the core of the Museum's Chinese collections.
  • Berthold Laufer was een Duits-Amerikaans sinoloog, tibetoloog en antropoloog. Laufer volgde het Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnasium in Keulen van 1884-1893, vervolgde zijn studie tot 1895 in Berlijn en behaalde zijn doctoraal aan de Universiteit van Leipzig in 1897. Het jaar erop emigreerde hij naar de Verenigde Staten. In 1898-1899 voerde hij etnografisch veldwerk uit op de rivier Amoer en het eiland Sachalin in oostelijk Rusland, als onderdeel van de Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Hij werkte als assistent in de etnologie bij het American Museum of Natural History (1904-1906) en werd lector in de antropologie en Oost-Aziatische talen op de Columbia-universiteit (1905-1907). De rest van zijn loopbaan werkte hij voor het Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. In 1934 vond hij de dood door van het dak te springen van het hotel waar hij verbleef in Chicago.
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  • Berthold Laufer war ein deutscher Anthropologe, Sinologe und Ostasienforscher.
  • Berthold Laufer (October 11, 1874 – September 13, 1934) was a German-American anthropologist and orientalist. Laufer was born in Cologne to a Jewish family. He attended the Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnasium from 1884-1893. He continued his studies in Berlin (1893–1895) and completed his doctorate degree at the University of Leipzig in 1897. The following year he emigrated to the United States where he remained until his death.
  • Berthold Laufer was een Duits-Amerikaans sinoloog, tibetoloog en antropoloog. Laufer volgde het Friedrich Wilhelms Gymnasium in Keulen van 1884-1893, vervolgde zijn studie tot 1895 in Berlijn en behaalde zijn doctoraal aan de Universiteit van Leipzig in 1897. Het jaar erop emigreerde hij naar de Verenigde Staten. In 1898-1899 voerde hij etnografisch veldwerk uit op de rivier Amoer en het eiland Sachalin in oostelijk Rusland, als onderdeel van de Jesup North Pacific Expedition.
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