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Richard Thurnwald

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Austrian anthropologist

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Thurnwald was an Austrian anthropologist and sociologist, known for his comparative studies of social institutions. Biography He studied law, economics and oriental languages in Berlin, earning a law degree in 1891. He then took a government post, and while being stationed in Bosnia , he conducted research of the local social and economic climate. In 1898 he travelled to Egypt, and following his return to Berlin, he took classes in Egyptology and Assyriology . In Berlin, he found employment as an assistant curator at the Museum für Völkerkunde.

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