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Biographical Notes
Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth
born in Thuringia, Germany, in 1941, is a mother and a grandmother.
She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy and theory of science at the
University of Munich, where she taught philosophy for ten years
(1973-1983).
She has published extensively on matriarchal society and culture, and
through her lifelong research on matriarchal societies has become the
founder of modern Matriarchal Studies. She lectured in Europe and
abroad, and her main work Matriarchal Societies. Studies on
Indigenous Cultures across the Globe (Peter Lang, New York 2013)
has been published in German, English, Italian, Spanish, and French.
She has been visiting professor at the University of Montreal in
Canada, and at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
In 1986, she founded the “International Academy HAGIA for
Modern
Matriarchal Studies and Matriarchal Spirituality” in
Germany, and since then has been its director. There, she is doing her
research and teachings, and since the beginning of the academy, she is
celebrating and teaching the festivals of matriarchal spirituality.
In 2003, she organized and guided the “1st World Congress on
Matriarchal Studies” in Luxembourg; in 2005, the “2nd World
Congress on Matriarchal Studies” in Texas/USA (together with G.
Vaughan); in 2011, the “World Congress on Matriarchal Politics” in
Switzerland (together with the women-representatives of the
Academy HAGIA).
In 2005, she was elected by the international initiative “1000 Peace
Women Across the Globe” as a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2012, she received the Saga-award for her scholarship from “The
Association for the Study of Women & Mythology” in San Francisco.
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