Ina-Maria Greverus (16 August 1929 in Zwickau – 11 April 2017 in Frankfurt am Main)[1] was a German folklorist and university lecturer in European ethnology and cultural anthropology.
Ina-Maria Greverus undertook many research and private trips, which were characterized by her ethnological view.
In 1956, she was awarded a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Marburg with the dissertation Die Geschenke des kleinen Volkes - KHM 182 - Eine vergleichende Untersuchung.
[5] In 1970, she completed her habilitation at the University of Giessen with the work Der territoriale Mensch, an analysis of the phenomena of Heimat and identity.
In 1974 she founded the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Frankfurt am Main and became its first professor and director until her retirement in 1997.