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Georg Pfeffer was born on 17 January, 1943 in Berlin, Germany, is a German anthropologist (1943–2020). Discover Georg Pfeffer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Occupation Anthropologist
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 17 January, 1943
Birthday 17 January
Birthplace Berlin, Germany
Date of death 2020
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Nationality Germany

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1943

Georg Pfeffer (17 January 1943 — 20 May 2020) was a German anthropologist.

Born in 1943 in Berlin to a German sociologist father and a British mother, he was schooled in Hamburg.

Georg Pfeffer was born on 17 January 1943 at Berlin in Germany to Karl Heinz Pfeffer and Margaret Wainman Kirby.

His father was a sociologist.

His mother was a Briton.

He had to leave his native place because of bombing during the second world war's end.

During his early childhood years, he lived in village in Hesse where he came in touch with refugees and experienced the "social structures" of Germany's countryside areas.

1949

In 1949, the Pfeffer family shifted to Hamburg where he completed his schooling.

When Georg Pfeffer was 16 years old, the Pfeffer family shifted to Lahore in Pakistan.

1959

In 1959, he moved to Lahore with his family, and studied at the city's Forman Christian College for 3 years.

Later, he moved back to Germany and studied at the University of Freiburg where he also completed his Ph.D.

He served for 1 year as lecturer and for nearly 6 years as a professor of ethnology at the Heidelberg University.

From 1959 to 1962, he studied at the Forman Christian College.

During that time, he also learned about the culture, society, and language of Pakistan.

Later, he returned to Germany.

1960

In the later half of the 1960s, he did his first ethnographic field study, and the subjects of the study were Lahore's "untouchable sweepers".

1966

In 1966, he started to study history of religion, sociology, and ethnology at the University of Freiburg.

His teachers at the university included Rolf Herzog and Heinrich Popitz.

1968

He carried out field studies in India and Pakistan since 1968.

He had studied the indigenous social groups and caste system of India and Pakistan.

1970

In 1970, he completed his Ph.D. at the university.

For his doctorate, he presented a monographic dissertation titled Pariagruppen des Pandschab (Pariah Groups of Punjab).

The subjects of Pfeffer's research included the study of power relations, anthropology of kinship, and anthropology of religion.

In the 1970s, he also performed his career's second field study on the role of the Vedic Brahmins in Jagannath Temple at Puri in Odisha, India.

In Odisha, he had done fieldwork solely at the beginning.

Later, he conducted research there with a group of scholars from India and Germany.

He had been among the people of Odisha nearly each year for a few decades.

1971

In 1971, he joined the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University as an assistant.

1976

At the Heidelberg University, he also presented a monographic thesis titled Puris Sasana–Dörfer, Basis einer Regionalen Elite (Puris Sasana Villages, Basis of Regional Elite) for his habilitation in 1976, and worked as a lecturer at the university in 1978.

1979

From 1979 to 1985, he worked as a professor of ethnology at the Heidelberg University.

1980

Since the 1980s, central India's Adivasi people had been the main focus of his field research, specially the study of their kinship, rituals, and religion.

1984

From 1984 to 1988, he was the co-editor of the South Asian Social Scientist.

1985

From 1985 to his retirement in 2008, he worked as a professor at the Free University of Berlin's Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and also supervised the Asian studies at the institute.

1989

In 1989, he co-founded the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

1990

Since 1990, he was a member of the editorial staff of the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie for its South Asia and Symbolic Classification subject.

2008

Later, he joined the Free University of Berlin and served as a professor at its Institute of Ethnology for nearly 23 years until his retirement in 2008.

He had done fieldwork among the Adivasis of India's central regions, and in the eastern state Odisha.

He also did field research in Pakistan.

He was a co-founder of the European Association of Social Anthropologists and had worked at various editorial positions in a few anthropological journals.

He died at the age of 77 years after a grave illness.