# Karl Weule

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**Karl Weule** (29 February 1864, in [Alt-Wallmoden](/source/Wallmoden) – 19 April 1926, in [Leipzig](/source/Leipzig)) was a German [geographer](/source/Geographer), [ethnologist](/source/Ethnologist) and museum director.

## Biography

Weule studied history, geography and [German philology](/source/German_philology) at the universities of [Leipzig](/source/University_of_Leipzig) and [Göttingen](/source/University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen). In 1891, he moved to Berlin, where he served as assistant geographer to [Ferdinand von Richthofen](/source/Ferdinand_von_Richthofen), followed by work as assistant to [Adolf Bastian](/source/Adolf_Bastian) at the [Ethnological Museum of Berlin](/source/Ethnological_Museum_of_Berlin). In 1899, he was appointed assistant director at the [Leipzig Museum of Ethnography](/source/Leipzig_Museum_of_Ethnography) (Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig).[1][2]

In 1906, he traveled to [German East Africa](/source/German_East_Africa), where he made use of photography, [cinematography](/source/Cinematography) and the [phonograph](/source/Phonograph) for his ethnological research.[3] In 1907, he returned to Germany and was appointed director of the Leipzig museum.[2] The report about his travels and research was published in German in 1908 and the following year in English as *Native life in East Africa; the results of an ethnological research expedition*.[4]

In 1914, he was named head of the ethnographic department and the anthropological research center at the University of Leipzig. In 1920, he became full professor, and in 1923/24, he became Dean of the Department of [Philology](/source/Philology) and History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Leipzig.[2]

## Publications

- *Der afrikanische Pfeil : eine anthropogeographische Studie*, 1899 – The African arrow: an [anthropogeographical](/source/Anthropogeography) study.
- *Negerleben in Ostafrika. Ergebnisse einer ethnologischen Forschungsreise*, 1908; Translated into English by Alice Werner as: "*Native life in East Africa; the results of an ethnological research expedition*" (1909).
- *Die Kultur der Kulturlosen; ein Blick in die Anfänge menschlicher Geistesbetätigung*, 1910 – The culture of the uncultured; A look at the beginnings of human mental activity.
- *Leitfaden der Völkerkunde*, 1912 – Guide to ethnology.
- *Kulturelemente der Menschheit, Anfänge und Urformen der materiellen Kultur*, 1910 – Cultural elements of humanity, beginnings and original forms of material culture.
- *Die [Urgesellschaft](/source/Urgesellschaft) und ihre Lebensfürsorge*, 1912 – The primitive society and its life maintenance.
- *Vom Kerbstock zum Alphabet; Urformen der Schrift*, 1915 – From the [notched stick](/source/Notched_stick) to the [alphabet](/source/Alphabet); Original forms of writing.
- *Der Krieg in den Tiefen der Menschheit*, 1916 – The war in the depths of humanity.
- *Die Anfänge der Naturbeherrschung*, 1921 – The beginnings involving the mastery of nature.
- *Chemische Technologie der Naturvölker*, 1922 – Chemical technology of primitive peoples.[5]

## References

1. Weule, Karl (1909). [*Native Life in East Africa: The Results of an Ethnological Research Expedition*](https://books.google.com/books?id=im4LAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Karl+Weule%22+Richthofen&pg=PR12). Sir I. Pitman & Sons, Limited. pp. xii.

1. [SP Karl Weule - Interviews with German Anthropologists](http://www.germananthropology.com/short-portrait/karl-weule/291) (biographical information)

1. Fuhrmann, Wolfgang (2015-05-01). [*Imperial Projections: Screening the German Colonies*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9KdBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Karl+Weule%22+Bastian&pg=PA134). Berghahn Books. pp. 133–134. ISBN 978-1-78238-698-8.

1. Weule, Karl & Werner, Alice (1909). [*Native life in East Africa : the results of an ethnological research expedition /*](http://archive.org/details/nativelifeineast00weul). New York : D. Appleton.

1. [HathiTrust Digital Library](http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Weule,%20Karl,%201864-1926.%22&type=author&inst=) (published works)

## Further reading

- Zimmerman, Andrew (2006). ["'What Do You Really Want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?' Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colonial Tanzania"](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3879357). *Comparative Studies in Society and History*. **48** (2): 419–461. [doi:10.1017/S0010417506000168](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417506000168). [ISSN 0010-4175](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0010-4175). [JSTOR 3879357](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3879357). [S2CID 145718494](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145718494)

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