Fritz Graebner
Deceased Person
1877 – 1934
Who was Fritz Graebner?
Robert Fritz Graebner was a German geographer and ethnologist best known for his theory of the Kulturkreis, or culture circle.
Graebner advanced a theory of diffusion of culture which became the basis of a culture-historical approach to ethnology. His theories had influence for a time in the field of ethnology, and were also propounded by Franz Boas, Clark Wissler and Paul Kirchhoff. He was in Australia attending an anthropological conference when World War I broke out in 1914, and due to accusations of having hidden certain sensitive documents he was not allowed to leave Australia for the duration of the war.
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