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Ethnologist, anthropologist, and historian. Ph.D. from the University of Munich (1968). Researcher at the Frobenius Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, in Frankfurt am Main (1969–2004). Her main field of work has been Angola in the 16th and 17th centuries, within the framework of Central West Africa, based on Portuguese documentary sources, which she has studied, published, and disseminated.

Among her published works are: Studien zur Geschichte Angolas im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert (1996), Pioneiros Africanos: caravanas de carregadores na África Centro-Ocidental, 1850-1890 (2005), Fontes para a História de Angola do século XVII (1985 and 1988), Angola nos séculos XVI e XVII: estudos sobre fontes, métodos e história (2007), and Exploradores Alemães em Angola, 1611-1954: apropriações etnográficas entre comércio de escravos, colonialismo e ciência (2010).