* 1905 in Bremen + 1967 in Hamburg
In 1927, Bierhenke travelled to Portugal aboard the ship Weser.
In Hamburg, he studied Völkerkunde with Georg Thilenius, Geography with Siegfried Passarge and Romance studies with Fritz Krüger (all of them actively supporting the Nazi party). Afterwards he worked as a lecturer at the University of Murcia/Spain. Spain and Spanish folklore were his main interests. Because of his long legs he was nicknamed "saltamontes" (grasshopper) by the spanish peasants he was working with.
In 1938 he became head of the Eurasien secton at the Hamburg Museum for Völkerkunde. Later (1955) he was acting director of the museum. In 1956 he travelled to Romania and collected artefacts of romanian folklore for the museum.
In 1963, Bierhenke became editor for Eurasia in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie.
[More information on this anthropologist is welcome]
Amongst his publications are: Ländliche Gewerbe der Sierra de Gata (1932); Einführung in die Volkskunde von Schweden (1947); Amerikanistische Miszellen : Festband Franz Termer in Freundschaft und Verehrung gewidmet von Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern zur Vollendung des 65. Lebensjahres am 5. Juli 1959 (1959)
(photo by courtesy of Ulla Johansen)
