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German ethnologists

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Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840)
Adolf Bastian
German anthropologist (1826–1905)
Leo Frobenius
German ethnologist and archaeologist (1873–1938)
Georg August Schweinfurth
German explorer and scientist (1836-1925)
Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied
German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist (1782–1867)
Oscar Ferdinand Peschel
German geographer (1826–1875)
Princess Theresa of Bavaria
Bavarian princess, scientist, philanthropist (1850-1925)
Walter Anderson
Baltic German folklorist (1885–1962)
Lorenz Diefenbach
German writer and academic (1806-1883)
Karl von den Steinen
German physician, ethnologist, explorer, ancient Americanist and writer (1855-1929)
Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Württemberg
German duke and naturalist (1797–1860)
Bruno Beger
German racial anthropologist (1911–2009)
Gustaf Dalman
German Lutheran theologian and orientalist (1855–1941)
Heinrich Cunow
German politician (1862-1936)
Peter Kolbe
astronomer (1675-1726) in South Africa
Christoph Weiditz the Elder
German painter, sculptor, engraver, medallist and goldsmith (1498–1559)
Eduard Seler
German academic (1849–1922)
Thomas Barthel
German Mesoamericanist (1923-1997)
Max Leopold Wagner
German academic (1880-1962)
Fedor Jagor
German ethnologist, naturalist and explorer (1816–1900)
Emil Riebeck
German explorer and scientist (1853–1885)
Karl Russwurm
Baltic German historian (1812–1883)
Konrad Theodor Preuss
German ethnologist (1869–1938)
Karl Wilhelm Leopold Krug
German botanist (1833-1898)
Eduard Pechuël-Loesche
German naturalist and geographer (1840-1913)
Eduard Erkes
German sinologist and historian (1891–1958)
Karl Weule
German geographer and ethnologist (1864–1926)
Georg Elwert
German ethnologist and sociologist (1947–2005)
Karl Helbig
German explorer, geographer, ethnologist, coal trimmer and author (1903–1991)
Ludwig Kohl-Larsen
German physician, anthropologist and explorer (1884-1969)
Walter Lehmann
German archaeologist (1878–1939)
Ronald Daus
language and cultural studies scholar
Wolfgang Steinitz
German ethnologist (1905-1967)
Georg Friederici
German ethnologist and historian (1866–1947)
Werner Kissling
German photographer ethnographer (1895–1988)
Kurt Ranke
German ethnologist (1908–1985)
Paul Hambruch
German ethnologist (1882-1933)
Edmund Veckenstedt
educator, ethnologist and folklorist
Gerd Koch
cultural anthropologist, ethnologist
Emil Ludwig Schmidt
German ethnologist and anthropologist (1837-1906)
John-Baptist Hoffmann
German Jesuit priest, missionary, and ethnologist
Franz Baermann Steiner
anthropologist, polymath, poet (1909–1952)
Hans Heinrich Brüning
German archaeologist (1848–1928)
Gertrud Pätsch
German ethnologist and philologist (1910–1994)
Julius Lips
German ethnologist and sociologist (1895-1950)
Max Quedenfeldt
German entomologist (1851-1891)
Werner Müller
German anthropologist (1907–1990)
Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg
German sociologist
Herbert Baldus
German ethnologist and writer (1899-1970)
Regina Bendix
Swiss ethnologist, anthropologist and university teacher (born 1958)
Mamadou Diawara
Malian ethnologist