Friedrich Julius Bieber

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Friedrich Julius Bieber (born February 24, 1873 in Vienna ; † March 3, 1924 there ) was an Austrian explorer of Africa.

Life

Memorial plaque on his house at Auhofstrasse 144

Friedrich Julius Bieber was the oldest of five children of a bank clerk who died early. A teacher aroused Bieber's interest in exotic countries. However, Bieber did not get any higher education, but began an apprenticeship as a shoemaker and later a bookseller after his father's death.

In 1890 Bieber went on a hike to Trieste, a year later he traveled to Constantinople. In 1892 the autodidact, who was based on the travels of Gerhard Rohlfs and Verney Cameron , came to Eritrea . In 1893 he found employment as a diurnist in the statistical service in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce . In 1904 Bieber traveled with the merchant Leopold Morgenstern to the Ethiopian imperial court in Addis Ababa . This trip served as preparation for the official Imperial and Royal Mission to Ethiopia , which took place in 1905 under the direction of Ludwig von Höhnel . The successful mission resulted in a trade and friendship treaty between Ethiopia and Austria-Hungary. Then Bieber traveled with Alphons von Mylius to southwest Ethiopia and collected material about the former kingdom of Kaffa . In 1909 he traveled to Ethiopia together with the industrialist Emil Pick and came to the White Nile .

Bieber received the knightly order "Star of Ethiopia" from Emperor Menelik II . He received rich honorary gifts and was appointed colonel in the Ethiopian army.

After his return from Africa, Bieber developed a rich scientific publication activity. His two-volume work on Kaffa is considered a standard work. Bieber, father of two sons, was also politically involved as a social democrat with Kinderfreunde . The majority of his ethnographic collections can now be found in the Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna. Private memorabilia are exhibited in the Hietzing District Museum.

Fonts

Bieber's two-volume work on Kaffa is considered to be one of the most essential sources on the kingdom, Bieber's publications, with the exception of Antonio Cecchi's book from 1885, made all previous publications on Kaffa obsolete.

  • Aitjôpija. An African great power and its development. In: Mittheilungen der Geographische Ges. In Wien, 44, 1901, pp. 291–311.
  • The Harar Railway and Ethiopia's Foreign Trade. In: Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics, 24, 1902, pp. 289–295.
  • The economic development of Ethiopia and the Austrian export. Lecture. Vienna 1903.
  • The Austrian expedition to Kaffa. In: Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics 28, 1906, Issue 4, pp. 146–150.
  • From Adis Ababa via Affabot to Djibouti. In: Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics 30, 1907, Issue 1–2, pp. 13–22. 60-74.
  • The soil culture in Kaffa. A contribution to the ethnography of Ethiopia. In: Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics 31, 1908, Issue 2, pp. 55–68.
  • Travel through Ethiopia and Sudan. Expedition EG Pick. In: Mitteilungen der kk Geographische Gesellschaft in Wien, 33, 1910, pp. 313–364.
  • Trip to Harar and Adis Ababa. In: Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics 32, 1910, pp. 385-399. 442-452. 492-500.
  • My journey from Adis Ababa to Chartum. In: Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics 36, 1914, pp. 298-316. 347-356.
  • Travel to Jimma Kaka. In: Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics 37, 1914/15, pp. 267–277. 313-328.
  • History of the kings of Kaffa. Lore of the Kaffitscho or Gonga. In: Announcements from the Seminar for Oriental Languages ​​19, Department 2.
  • Aden. In: Mitteilungen der kk Geographische Gesellschaft in Wien 60, 1917, pp. 524–534.
  • Kaffa. An old Cushite folk in Inner Africa. News about land and people, customs and traditions of the Kaffitscho or Gonga and the Kaffa Empire .
    • Volume 1: The Kaffitscho or Gonga have a life of their own . Aschendorff, Münster 1920.
    • Volume 2: The common life of the Kaffitscho or Gonga . Anthropos-Vlg. St. Gabriel-Mödling, Vienna 1923.
  • History of the Kaffaish-Ethiopian War. A tradition of the Kaffitscho or Gonga. In: Messages from the Seminar for Oriental Languages ​​23-25, 1922
  • Otto Bieber: Mysterious coffee. In the realm of the emperor-gods . Universum, Vienna 1948.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GWB Huntingford: The Galla of Ethopia. The Kingdoms of Kafa and Janjero . International African Institute, London 1955, p. 103.
personal data
SURNAME Bieber, Friedrich Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Africa explorer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1924
Place of death Vienna