Borys Malkin
Borys Malkin (born November 20, 1917 in Vitebsk , † August 12, 2009 in Warsaw ) was a Polish anthropologist , entomologist and herpetologist .
Life
Malkin lived in Warsaw but then moved to the USA . Here he enjoyed an education and dealt with entomology, herpetology, archeology and ethnography . He made films about Indian cultures and observed 50 Indian groups in South America . He put on ethnographic collections on Indians in the Amazon and in the Gran Chaco . Malkin acquired exhibits for American and European museums.
During the Second World War , he first served in the US Air Force and then was a volunteer in the US Army . He was deployed in the Pacific Ocean and served a year and a half in New Guinea in what is now Irian Jaya . Other locations were Australia and the Philippines . During his stays, he expanded his collection of spiders and insects, which he made available to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC and the American Museum of Natural History in New York .
After the war he studied African Studies at the University of London . This was followed by a year and a half in Africa , financed by the San Francisco Natural History Museum . The trip takes him to Libya , Tunisia , Algeria and Nigeria .
In 1972 he moved to Switzerland . He met his wife on a visit to Poland and then moved back to Warsaw. In the 1990s he still traveled to South America .
Malkin published a large number of scientific papers. He has also written films about the life of the Colombian Indian tribes, Cofan and Waumeo . He made a total of 22 ethnographic films. He left 40,000 slides and black-and-white photographs and created photos of 15,000 ethnographic objects that document the handicraft work of 40 Indian groups living in South America. In addition, he also collected 1,500 objects of pre-Columbian art. There are exhibits he has collected in 40 museums in Europe and North and South America.
literature
- Polish explorers , publisher: Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ISBN 83-89175-51-7 , page 49 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malkin, Borys |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish anthropologist, entomologist and herpetologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vitebsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 2009 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |