Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Curt Unckel, better known as Curt Nimuendajú (April 18, 1883–10 December 1945), was a German-Brazilian ethnologist, anthropologist and writer. His works are fundamental for understanding the religion and cosmology of many native Brazilian Indians, especially the Guarani people. He earned the surname Nimuendajú from the Apapocuva branch of the latter, who, in a formal adoption ceremony, gave him the name, meaning 'the one who made himself a home,' a mere 1 year after his arrival among them. He gave it as part of his official name when taking Brazilian citizenship in 1922. In an obituary, his Brazilian-German colleague, also born in Germany, Herbert Baldus called him 'perhaps the greatest Indianista of all time.’. }
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- Curt_Nimuendajú abstract "Curt Unckel, better known as Curt Nimuendajú (April 18, 1883–10 December 1945), was a German-Brazilian ethnologist, anthropologist and writer. His works are fundamental for understanding the religion and cosmology of many native Brazilian Indians, especially the Guarani people. He earned the surname Nimuendajú from the Apapocuva branch of the latter, who, in a formal adoption ceremony, gave him the name, meaning 'the one who made himself a home,' a mere 1 year after his arrival among them. He gave it as part of his official name when taking Brazilian citizenship in 1922. In an obituary, his Brazilian-German colleague, also born in Germany, Herbert Baldus called him 'perhaps the greatest Indianista of all time.’".