Emil Stephan

Emil Stephan (born May 16, 1872 in Glatz , Silesia ; † May 25, 1908 in Namatanai , German New Guinea ) was a German doctor and head of the German naval expedition to Neumecklenburg .

Life

Emil Stephan studied medicine and received his doctorate in Munich in 1896 . In 1900/01 he took part in the China expedition as a marine assistant doctor . From 1904 on, Stephan worked as a medical officer on board the survey vessel SMS Möwe in the South Seas. He used the opportunity for ethnographic studies, especially in Neupommern and Neumecklenburg. After a long stay in Berlin, he traveled back to the South Seas on September 7, 1907 and took over the management of the German naval expedition to Neumecklenburg, which also included the Swiss anthropologist and ethnologist Otto Schlaginhaufen, the Berlin ethnologist Edgar Walden and the photographer Richard Schilling. In the headquarters of the Muliama expedition he fell seriously ill in May 1908 and died in Namatanai (Central Neumecklenburg) on ​​May 25, 1908.

Fonts

• Autochthonous thrombosis of both mesenteric arteries. Printed by L. Schirmer, Glatz 1896 (dissertation, University of Munich, 1896).
• (Ed.) South Sea Art. Contributions to the art of the Bismarck Archipelago and to the prehistory of art in general. Reimer, Berlin 1907.
• ed. with Fritz Graebner : New Mecklenburg (Bismarck Archipelago): The coast from Umuddu to Cape St. Georg. Research results from the survey trips by SMS Möve in 1904. Reimer, Berlin 1907.

literature

• Emil Stephan. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume III, p. 405 ( online ).
• Joseph Schmidt: Emil Stephan. In: The County of Glatz. Illustrated magazine of the Glatzer Mountain Club. Vol. 11 (1916), No. 7/8, pp. 47-49 (with illustration).