Fuchs, Stephen

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Summary: Stephen Fuchs was an Austrian Catholic priest, missionary, and anthropologist who researched the ethnology and prehistory of India. After obtaining a Ph.D. in ethnology and Indology from the University of Vienna in 1950, Fuchs moved to India where he assisted in founding the Department of Anthropology at St. Xavier's College in Bombay. After a brief imprisonment for being misidentified as a German missionary by the British government during World War II, Fuchs founded the Indian Branch of the Anthropos Institute, later renamed the Institute of Indian Culture. Fuchs, because of health concerns, moved to Austria in 1996 and died at the age of 91 in Mödling, Austria. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4]
Born: 1908-04-30 [2]
Birth Place: Bruck an der Mur [2][4]
Died: 2000-01-17 [2]
Death Place: Mödling (Autriche) [3]
Country: Austria [2]
Language: English [3]
Occupation: anthropologist [4]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Wikidata

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