Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg 2 August — 12 February was a German sociologist , ethnologist , sexologist , and writer further specializing into the fields of psychology , Indo-European studies , religious studies , and philosophy, since also increasingly anthropology.
As Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg used these approaches in research particularly in the fields of sexology , homophobia , and prejudice studies , the US Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists SOLGA; formerly Anthropology Research Group on Homosexuality , ARGOH [ 1 ] of the American Anthropological Association ranked Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg's works on homophobia as internationally outstanding. Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg studied sociology, psychology , ethnology, religious studies , philosophy and Indogermanistik an interdisciplinarian German subject, not identical with purely linguistic Indo-European studies in Anglophone countries, consisting of historical, sociological, cultural, religious, ethnological, philological, and linguistic study relating to Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European peoples and Indo-European languages in Bonn.
In , Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg graduated at the University of Bonn , receiving her Magister artium comparable to a Master's degree in the Anglo-American educational system for her thesis Homosexualität und Transvestition im Schamanismus "Homosexuality and transvestition in shamanism".
In , she received her PhD for her doctoral dissertation on Sexuelle Abartigkeit im Urteil der abendländischen Religions-, Geistes-, und Rechtsgeschichte im Zusammenhang mit der Gesellschaftsentwicklung "The religious, philosophical, and legal construction of sexual deviance in interdependence with the development of Western society".
After university studies Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg became a scientific assistant at the Sociological Institute of Bonn University, and worked as a sociologist, writer, and independent journalist, holding memberships in a number of scientific and political organizations.
