When Schmidt got the first issue of Anthropos out in February 1906 (then at near
Vienna in
Austria), it was praised not only by the religious scholars, but also by such an
anti-clerical figure as the French ethnographer
Arnold van Gennep. Van Gennep confirmed his initial opinion a year later, stating that the four issues printed so far "place this journal among the ethnographic publications of the first rank". The initial name of the publication was
Anthropos - Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde ("International Review of Ethnology and Linguistcs"), as suggested by Paul Huber (then owner of ) and
Karl Muth; Schmidt himself considered Latin names like
Omnes Gentes ("All Peoples"). The first issue contained (on 163 pages) articles in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin; more languages were added later. However, in the beginning of the 21st century English predominates. Schmidt always wanted to have an institution behind the journal. It took him 25 years to create the
Anthropos Institute, but the
interbellum conditions limited the possibilities, so a regular editorial structure was only put into place in 1962, when Anthropos moved to in Germany. In the meantime, after the
Anschluss in 1938, Anthropos was operating out of
Posieux in
Switzerland (for more than 60 years the printing continued to be done in Swiss
Fribourg, even after the move of editorial staff to Germany). == See also ==