Beatrix Heintze

Biography

Beatrix Heintze studied Ethnology, Romance Languages, History, Ancient History and Philosophy in Munich and was promoted in 1968 with a work on "Obscene phenomena in the Middle Bantu region". After several scholarships (1968/69 of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and 1966/67, 1969/70 of the German Research Foundation), she was a research associate at the Frobenius Institute from May 1970 to February 2004. She was chief editor (after the death of the director of the institute, Eike Haberland, also editor) of Paideuma (1971 - 1997) and monograph studies on cultural studies(Volumes 28 to 120 and 122, from 1992 also as editor, then together with the new director of the institute, Karl-Heinz Kohl, as co-editor). In 1995, she founded the institute's own small series, "Afrika-Archiv", which is reserved for the editing of sources. It is intended to give less privileged scientists access to sources that can be consulted only with a great deal of time and money, or which are in private ownership. She herself has edited several important European sources on the history and ethnography of Angola in the 17th and 19th centuries. Their own research and publications, based on intensive studies in Portuguese and German archives, deal especially with the history and ethnology of Western Central Africa.

Research Interest

Thematic focus: History, historical research methods, ethnology, history of science, historical photography Regional focus: Central Africa, especially Angola