About Sigrid Schmidt
Born 1930. Sigrid Schmidt is an ethnologist.
Sigrid Schmidt (birth name: Sigrid Matthäi) (born 12 July 1930) is a German folklorist, best known for her Afrika erzählt ("Africa Narrates") series. The ten volumes are tales (with extensive commentary) collected by the author from 1959-1962 and 1972-1997 (volumes 1 to 7 in German, volumes 8 to 10 in English), mostly in Namibia.
Biography Born in Berlin, and gained her Ph.D. 1958 for her thesis Rittertum und Adel in den englischen und schottischen Volksballaden. Following the defense of her thesis Schmidt married an hydraulic engineer and lived in South West Africa, now Namibia, from 1959 to 1962, mostly at the construction site of the Hardap Dam.
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German ethnologist and folklorist (b. 1930)
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