Fedor Jagor

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Fedor Jagor, drawn by Christian Wilhelm Allers , 1886
Fedor Jagor's grave in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf
Fedor Jagor's Travels on a Map of the Philippines, 1872, from Jagor's Travels in the Philippines (1873)

Andreas Fedor Jagor (born November 30, 1816 in Berlin ; † February 11, 1900 there ) was a German explorer and ethnographer .

Live and act

Fedor Jagor studied ethnography , inspired by a visit to Paris . On behalf of the Berlin museums he toured South and Southeast Asia . From 1859 to 1861 he was in the Philippines , India , East Asia and the South Seas . He stayed on the island of Java and in the Malay Archipelago from 1873 to 1876 and from 1890 to 1893.

From 1869 Jagor was a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory . In 1879 he became a member of the Leopoldina . Jagor carried on extensive correspondence with Rudolf Virchow and recorded his travel experiences and observations in several books.

Fedor Jagor died in Berlin in 1900 at the age of 83 and was buried in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . In the course of the leveling of the cemetery carried out by the National Socialists in 1938/1939, Jagor's remains were reburied in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf near Berlin. The grave monument created by Constantin Starck is also located there .

He bequeathed his ethnographic collections to the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin. He donated his fortune and his art collection to the city of Berlin. His grave site with a memorial created by Constantin Starck is located in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf after he has been reburied .

Fonts (selection)

  • Singapore, Malacca, Java. Travel sketches. Springer, Berlin 1866 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • Travel in the Philippines. Weidmann, Berlin 1873 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • East Indian crafts and trades with regard to the European labor market. Springer, Berlin 1878.
  • From Fedor Jagor's estate. Edited by the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory under the direction of Albert Grünwedel . Volume I: South Indian Tribes. Reimer, Berlin 1914 (no longer published).

literature

  • Zoilo M. Galang: Encyclopedia of the Philippines. Manila 1950-1958.
  • Rudolf Virchow : Obituary for F. Jagor. In: Negotiations of the Berlin Anthropological Society. Volume 32, 1900, p. 91.
  • Rudolf Virchow: Complete Works. Edited by Christian Andree . Volume 61 (letters), Olms, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-487-13255-6 , p. 501 f.
  • Short obituary. In: Photographische Rundschau . 14th year (1900), p. 63.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopoldina. Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists . Issue 36, Halle 1900, p. 38 and 49.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. pp. 304, 471.
personal data
SURNAME Jagor, Fedor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jagor, Andreas Fedor; Jagor, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German explorer and ethnographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1900
Place of death Berlin