Eva Lips speech

Eva Lips was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1906, the daughter of Ernst Weigant, a publisher. She married Julius Lips, a professor at the University of Cologne who had studied psychology, anthropology, and law in Leipzig. Eva herself studied anthropolgy at universities in Cologne, Bonn, and Paris. In 1933, Julius Lips resigned his professorship at the University of Cologne and his directorship of the Ethnological Museum in Cologne (Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum). They emigrated to the United States via Paris in 1936. After the war, the couple returned to Leipzig, where they lived until Julius's death in 1950. Eva completed her doctorate in anthropology in 1951 and became a professor, retiring in 1966. She died in Leipzig in 1988.