Basic Biographical Information
João Alfredo Rohr was born in 1908 at Arroio do Meio, Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil, amidst a community of German Catholic immigrants. At the age of 12, at a time where there were no universities in the southern part of the country, he left to attend a seminary maintained by the Society of Jesus. It was in Pareci Novo, and later, São Leopoldo, that João Alfredo pursued his education for the next 20 years, until finally becoming an ordained priest of the Jesuit Order (Schimitz 2009).
Father Rohr’s first assignment was to teach at the traditional school that the Jesuits had established in 1905 at the city of Florianopolis. Father Rohr taught chemistry, physics, and natural sciences at the Catarinense School for 22 years. As a Jesuit, he had a strong background in Humanities and Natural History (Schimitz 2009). The school had a small museum, which Father Rohr expanded into the Museum of the American Man and later into the Museum of the Sambaqui Man...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences
Reis, M.J. & T.D. Fossari. 1984. In memorian do Padre João Alfredo Rohr. Anais do Museu de Antropologia da UFSC XVI (17).
Schmitz, P.I. 2009. João Alfredo Rohr: Um jesuíta em tempos de transição. Pesquisas, Anthropologia 67: 9-22.
Further Reading
Gaspar, M.D, P. DeBlasis, S.K. Fish & P. Fish. 2008. Sambaqui (Shell mound) societies of coastal Brazil, in H. Silverman & W.H. Isbell (ed.) Handbook of South American archaeology: 319-335. New York: Springer.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this entry
Cite this entry
Attorre, T. (2014). Rohr, João Alfredo. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2469
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2469
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-0426-3
Online ISBN: 978-1-4419-0465-2
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law