Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg facts for kids
Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg (2 August 1929 – 12 February 2025) was a German sociologist, ethnologist, and writer further specializing into the fields of psychology, Indo-European studies, religious studies, and philosophy, since 1980 also increasingly anthropology.
Biography
Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg studied sociology, psychology, ethnology, religious studies, philosophy and Indogermanistik (an interdisciplinarian German subject, not identical with purely linguistic Indo-European studies in Anglophone countries, consisting of historical, sociological, cultural, religious, ethnological, philological, and linguistic study relating to Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European peoples and Indo-European languages) in Bonn.
In 1969, Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg graduated at the University of Bonn. In 1970, she received her PhD.
After university studies Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg became a scientific assistant at the Sociological Institute of Bonn University, and worked as a sociologist, writer, and independent journalist, holding memberships in a number of scientific and political organizations. During the late 1980s, Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg was a member of the German-parliament commissioned Enquetekommission AIDS, an inquiry commission researching into the disease's social, legal, and public health care consequences and challenges, a cooperation which spawned her 1989 book Angst und Vorurteil.
Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg was married and lived in Germany. She died on 12 February 2025, aged 95.
See also
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