Ernst Mengin

Ernst Mengin (16 June 1893 – 5 January 1973) was a German Mesoamericanist. He studied under Walter Lehmann and Konrad Theodor Preuss, who in turn had studied under Eduard Seler. In 1934 Mengin and his family moved from Berlin to Copenhagen, Denmark, and he delivered lectures at the University of Copenhagen, where he established the University's first course in Central American Indian Language and Culture.[1][2]

Publications

As author
  • Das Recht der französisch-reformierten Kirche in Preußen (1929)[3]

As editor
  • Unos annates histόricos de la natiόn mexicana (1945)[4]
  • Memorial de Tecpan-Atitlan (Solola). Anales de los Cakchiqueles Historia del antiguo Reino del Cakchiquel dicho de Guatemala (1952)[5]

References
  1. Hvidtfeld, Arild (1977). "Ernst Mengin (1893-1973)". Indiana. 4: 309–315.
  2. Wilson, Fiona (2002). "Latin Americanists of Denmark" (PDF). European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 72: 49–60.
  3. Feine, Hans Erich (1930). "Dr. Ernst Mengin, Das Recht der französisch-reformierten Kirche in Preußen". Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Kanonistische Abteilung. 19 (1): 880–881. doi:10.7767/zrgka.1930.19.1.880.
  4. Barlow, R. (1949). "Unos annates histόricos de la natiόn mexicana. Edited by Ernst Mengin. Corpus Codicum Americanorum Medii Aevi; Litterarum Monumenta in Lingua Nahuatl et Maya…, Vol. 2. Copenhagen: Einar Munksgaard, 1945". American Antiquity. 15 (2): 166. doi:10.2307/276399. JSTOR 276399.
  5. Satterthwaite, Linton (1954). "Memorial de Tecpan-Atitlan (Solola). Anales de los Cakchiqueles Historia del antiguo Reino del Cakchiquel dicho de Guatemala.. Edited by Ernst Mengin Corpus Codicum Americanorum Medii Aevi, Vol. IV. Einar Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1952. 46 pages, 96 facsimile plates, $76.00". American Antiquity. 20 (2): 181. doi:10.2307/277578. JSTOR 277578.


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