Maximilian Bartels

Maximilian "Max" Carl August Bartels (born September 26, 1843 in Berlin ; † October 22, 1904 in the same place) was a German doctor and ethnologist .

His father was also a doctor and was head of the Bethanien Hospital in Berlin for a long time . Bartels studied medicine and was assistant to surgeon Robert Wilms at Bethanien Hospital. He was then a resident doctor in Berlin and became a secret medical adviser.

He is known for his occupation with ethnology. He wrote a book about medicine among primitive peoples and edited the new editions of Hermann Heinrich Ploss's book The Woman in Nature and Ethnology .

Max Bartels became a member of the Leopoldina on June 22, 1894 . He was a member of the Anthropological Society (secretary from 1889), the Association for the Trachtenmuseum (of which he became chairman), the Association for Folklore and he was on the Advisory Board of the Museum for Ethnology.

The anatomist Paul Bartels was his son.

Fonts

• The medicine of primitive peoples. Ethnological contributions to the prehistory of medicine . Th. Grieben's Verlag (L. Fernau), Leipzig 1893 digitized

literature

• Obituary by Max Roediger, Journal of the Verein für Völkerkunde 1904, p. 106, archive
• Paul Bartels : Dr. In memory of Max Bartels, at the same time a foreword to the 8th edition of the work: The woman in nature and ethnology. In: Max Bartels (ed.): The woman in nature and ethnology. Anthropological studies by Dr. H. Ploss, first volume, eighth edition, Th. Grieben's Verlag (L. Fernau), Leipzig 1905 pp. III-XII, catalog raisonné pp. XIV-XVIII digitized

Web links

Wikisource: Max Bartels  - Sources and full texts

• Member entry of Max (Maximilian) Bartels at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 15, 2017.
• Works by Maximilian Bartels in the Gutenberg-DE project