Arthur Baessler

Arthur Baessler (born May 6, 1857 in Glauchau , † March 31, 1907 in Eberswalde ) was a German explorer and anthropologist . He is one of the great patrons of the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin .

Life

Baessler studied natural sciences , geography and anthropology at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1879 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg with Karl Schulze-Pelkum . As an inactive , he switched to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . Inspired by Adolf Bastian and Rudolf Virchow , he turned to illiterate and dying ethnic groups . In 1887 he began a two-year expedition through New Guinea . He toured Australia (1891–1893) and New Zealand , Polynesia and Peru (1896–1898). He bequeathed the collections he created in the process to ethnological and anthropological museums in Berlin , Dresden and Stuttgart . In 1903 he founded the Arthur Baessler Foundation . It should enable ethnologically trained research trips to regions of the world where they could collect ethnographica for the ethnological museum. Their reports were published in the Baessler Archive for Ethnology . Baessler died a good month before his 50th birthday.

New South Seas pictures. Georg Reimer publishing house, Berlin 1900, 420 pages. ( online )

personal data
SURNAME	Baessler, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baessler, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German anthropologist and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Glauchau , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH	March 31, 1907
Place of death	Eberswalde