* 1904 in Vienna + 1977
After his final exams at school (1923) he studied Oriental Art History in Vienna, Leipzig and Munich. He received his PhD in Munich (by Wilhelm Pinder).
From 1932 to 34 he worked as a language teacher and tour guide in Paris.
Marcel Griaule supervised his studies on the ethiopian collection at the Trocadéro-Museum.
In 1939 he was detained by the French and later was sent to a German Concentration Camp (according to NS-law, his mother was "half-jewish").
In 1953 he recieved french sitizenship (with support of Marcel Griale). From 1953-1969 Staude was Chargé de Recherches at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
He carried out fieldwork in France (1961 onwards) and Burkina Faso (1961, with Annemarie Schweeger-Hefel).
publications:
1960-63 Une certaine brimade dans la légende , le jeu et l'initiation. In: Archiv für Völkerkunde, 15, S.52-80, 16, S.198-229, 17/18, S.261-311. Wien; 1961 La légende royale des Kouroumba. In: Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 31, S.209-259. Paris; 1962 La structure de la chefferie chez les Kouroumba de Louroum (Haute-Volta Septentrionale). In: Anthropos, 57, s.757-778; 1963 Die drei heiligen Lanzen der Kouroumba von Louroum (Haute Volta). In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 88, S.293-309; 1967 Le héros dévoué et ses antagonistes. In: Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 37 (2), S.139-182. Paris; 1972 mit Annemarie Schweeger-Hefel
Die Kurumba von Lurum. Monographie eines Volkes aus Obervolta, Westafrika. Wien; 1974 Ganna. ein Zeitwendespeil. In: Ethnologische Zeitschrift Zürich, 2, S.93-132; 1975 Schimpf, Spott und Schläge. Wien
Obituary written by Laszlo Vajda in: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Vol. 104, Iss 1-2, pg. 201-208
(text by Dieter Haller on basis of BAA (July 2012); photo source: http://www.amazon.de/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/3852680352)
