LOBSIGER-DELLENBACH, Marguerite (née M. D.). Geneva 9.7.1905 — Onex, Geneva 1993. Swiss Anthropologist and Ethnomusicologist. From 1922 secretary of Eugène Pittard. From 1947 Vice-Director and in 1952-63 Director of Musée d’ethnographie in Geneva (Pittard’s successor). Fieldwork in Nepal in 1952. Married 1936 George Lobsiger (1903–1988).
Publications: Népal: Catalogue de la Collection d’Ethnographie Népalaise du Musée d’Ethnographie de la Ville de Genève. 70 p. 31 pl. Geneva 1954.
– Writings not dealing with South Asia (e.g. on New Caledonia).
Sources: R. Meige, “En hommage M.L.-D. (1905–1993) souvenirs et impressionistes”, Le Globe 162, 2022, 141-148 with photo; French Wikipédia.
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