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The following text is taken from the back of my study  In der Falle des Seins.  Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2021

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Curriculum vitae

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The author Dr. med. Herbert Aschwanden, after his apprenticeship as a film printer (screen printing), studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1961 in Zürich. In the same year he also married his wife Rita Aschwanden, with whom he has 5 children.

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From 1963 to 1965 Aschwanden worked as a doctor at a Calvinist missionary hospital in South Africa. Due to political differences with the apartheid regime, the couple emigrated  to Southern Rhodesia  from ,today's Zimbabwe, which was then under British colonial administration. Aschwanden was there for six years at the Musiso-Missionsspital of the SMB (Schweizerische  Mission Society Bethlehem ) and worked as a doctor. During his activity, Aschwanden also carried out ethnological studies on the symbolism of the Karanga, a subgroup of the Shona people. He processed the knowledge gained from this in a trilogy: "Symbols of Life", "Symbols of Death" and "Karanga Mythology", published synoptically in German with the title: "Das Bewusstsein". This was followed by an eighteen-year stay in  Stein am Rhein, where he ran a practice while his children were in school. The couple returned to Zimbabwe in 1989 and Aschwanden worked at Matibi and Muvonde Hospital until 2013. Aschwanden is living in Switzerland again with his wife since 2013.

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Annotation : In an autobiography, my wife and I tell the experiences of our lives: "Armut und Reichtum des Lebens ". German Science Publishing House, Baden-Baden 2020