Erhard Eylmann
Erhard Eylmann (born September 3, 1860 in Krautsand , † December 22, 1926 in Farge ) was a versatile German ethnologist and Australian researcher.
Life
Eylmann was the son of a wealthy farmer. He studied zoology and then medicine at the University of Freiburg , the University of Heidelberg , the University of Leipzig and the University of Würzburg . He received his doctorate in 1886. phil and in 1889 in Würzburg as Dr. med. He then lived in Cairo until 1884 and then studied geography and geology in Berlin .
Eylmann traveled to Australia several times , making his first major trip from 1896 to 1899. Eylmann was friends with Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis J. Gillen . He made his last trip to Australia shortly before the First World War .
In his main work from 1908, The natives of the colony of South Australia , he describes the customs and culture of the natives he visited, the South Australian Aborigines , their sex life, burial, storage areas, sign language, dyes, hunting and fishing as well as diseases and their treatment. He also wrote two works about the bird world in South Australia around 1914. He also devoted himself to the subjects of religion and missions.
He moved to Farge in the early 1920s . He lost his fortune in the inflation in Germany of 1923. He had been employed by the Bremen wool combing mill in Blumenthal since 1921 . Eylmann continued his studies in Farge and hoped to visit Australia again. His work on begging in South Australia also falls during this period.
Honors
The Eylmannstraße in Bremen- Blumenthal , district Farge bears his name.
Works
- Contribution to the systematics of the European Daphnids ; Dissertation, Freiburg 1888
- A case of myelogenous alveolar sarcoma ; Dissertation, Scheiner, Würzburg 1889/90
- Making fire among the natives of the Colony of South Australia ; Journal of Ethnology 34, 1902
- The natives of the colony of South Australia ; Dietrich Reimer (Repr. NY 1966), Berlin 1908 digitized
- Begging in the State of South Australia and the Northern Territory before the World War ; in communications from the Geographical Society Hamburg, vol. 34, pp. 55–98, Hamburg 1922
literature
- Herbert Abel : Eylmann, Paul Erhard Andreas. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 141 (column 1) to p. 142 (column 2).
- Otto Bunzendahl: The Australia researcher Erhard Eylmann and his collection in the German Colonial and Overseas Museum in Bremen . In: Publications from the German Colonial and Overseas Museum in Bremen , Volume 2, Bremen 1938
- Wilfried Schröder: I traveled like a Bushman. On the life and work of the Australian researcher Erhard Eylmann. (detailed biography, sources, original quotations) (Life and Scientific Work of the Pioneer of Australian Culture Erhard Eylmann). Science Ed., Bremen 2002
- Wilfried Schröder, Erhard Eylmann: A Pioneer of Exploration and Anthropology in Australia . Anthropological Forum 14 (2004), pp. 43-51.
Web links
- Literature by and about Erhard Eylmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eylmann, Erhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ethnologist and Australian researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cabbage sand |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 1926 |
| Place of death | Blumenthal |