Albert Grubauer

Albert Grubauer (born 1869 ; died 1960 ) was a German ethnologist, zoologist, and art collector. Exact details of the date of birth and death as well as the place of birth and death are unclear; Burghausen (waterless) is named as the place of activity .

His travels took him through what was then British Burma in 1902 and to the Indian Archipelago in 1911. In 1911 he stayed on Celebes (now Sulawesi) for three and a half months. Two years later he published his travel report with many photographs under the title "Among head hunters in Central-Celebes".

The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum has well over 500 artifacts collected by Grubauer. 235 early pieces come from the Moluccan islands of Ambon, Ceram and Misol, which Odo Deodatos Tauern visited in 1911/12. In 1918 his book »Patasiwa and Patalima. From the Moluccan island of Seram and its inhabitants «.