Dominik Schröder

Dominik Schröder (4 September 1910 – 25 December 1974) was an ethnologist whose researches were focused mainly in the Moungor (Tu) people of Northwest China. He was born in Eiweiler, in the Nohfelden municipality of the Saarland. He worked as a missionary in China from 1938 to 1949. He obtained an MA from Fujen University in Beijing in 1945. His particular area of research interest was the phenomenon of shamanism among the peoples of East Asia. He collected invaluable materials on the Gesar epic as conserved among the Monguor.

Dominik Schröder

Dominik Schröder (4 September 1910 – 25 December 1974) was an ethnologist whose researches were focused mainly in the Moungor (Tu) people of Northwest China. He was born in Eiweiler, in the Nohfelden municipality of the Saarland. He worked as a missionary in China from 1938 to 1949. He obtained an MA from Fujen University in Beijing in 1945. His particular area of research interest was the phenomenon of shamanism among the peoples of East Asia. He collected invaluable materials on the Gesar epic as conserved among the Monguor.