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Francis (Franz) Carl Anton Sarg (born December 21, 1840 in Nuremberg ; † December 31, 1921 ) was a German mine owner, coffee plantation owner, diplomat and naturalist.

Life

Born as the son of a schoolmaster, Francis Sarg studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg . In 1859 he became a member of the Corps Franconia Freiberg . After completing his studies, he emigrated to Guatemala with his English wife, Mary Parker , and bought and operated a lead mine near San Christóbal in the Alta Verapaz department , which he soon gave up due to high logistics costs. He then worked as a coffee producer and exporter.

In 1875 he became the consular representative of the USA in Cobán . In 1879 he was appointed German Vice Consul in Cobán, in 1881 German Consul in Cobán and in 1884 German Consul in Guatemala. He held the office until 1894. At the Foreign Exhibition of 1883 in Boston , he represented Guatemala with botanical and agricultural exhibits. At the beginning of the 20th century he retired, returned to Germany and settled in Frankfurt am Main . There he became director of the America Department of the Municipal Museum of Nations. Since 1906 he was a contributing member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society . He was the general secretary of the XVIII, held in London from May 27 to June 1, 1912. International Congress of Americanists .

In his first years in Guatemala, he corresponded with the paleontologist and zoologist Johann Jacob Kaup , to whom he sent both preparations and drawings of Guatemalan insects, especially sugar beetles . His treatise on the boomerang collection of the Städtisches Völkermuseum in Frankfurt was regarded by anthropological experts as one of the most conscientious of its kind with a clear and complete description of the subject.

The puppeteer Tony Sarg was his son.

Fonts

  • The Australian boomerangs in the Municipal Museum of Nations , Frankfurt, 1911
  • Old memories of the Alta Verapaz , 1917

Awards

  • Appointment as honorary boy of the Corps Franconia Freiberg
  • Name giver of the sugar beetle species Rimor Sargii , 1871

Web links

  • Francis coffin . In: Ian Graham: Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography , 2002, p. 290

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Corps list Corps Franconia in Freiberg, Saxony, March 5, 1838 to October 27, 1935, and Corps Franconia Fribergensis in Aachen since November 28, 1953, as of the summer semester 1985, p. 6
  2. ↑ a b Christiane Berth: Biographies and networks in the coffee trade between Germany and Central America 1920–1959 , 2014, p. 84 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Official Catalog of the Foreign Exhibition Boston 1883 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ 41. Report of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main, 1910, p. 26
  5. ^ Annals of the Imperial and Royal Court Museum, annual report for 1912, p. 50
  6. ↑ Berlin Entomological Society, Volume 15, 1871, pp. 118–120 ( digitized version )
  7. ^ Walter Hough: Book Review of The Australian Boomerangs in the Municipal Museum of Nations . In: American Anthropologist, New Series , Volume 13, No. 2, April - June 1911, pp. 330–331 ( digitized version )
  8. ↑ Berlin Entomological Society, Volume 15, 1871, pp. 119–120 ( digitized version )
  9. ↑ Rimor Sargii Kaup 1871 at www.ubio.org
personal data
SURNAME Coffin, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coffin, Francis Carl Anton; Coffin, Franz Carl Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mine owner, coffee plantation owner, diplomat and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1921