SCHÄFER, Ernst. Köln 14.3.1910 — Bad Bevensen, Niedersachsen 21.7.1992.German Zoologist and Explorer. Son of Albert Schäfer (1881–1971), an industrialist and politician, and Margarete Imdahl. Matriculated 1928 from Mannheim, then studied zoology, botany and geology at Göttingen and from 1923 at Berlin, Ph.D. 1938. In 1930-31 visited China, 1934 Tibetan borderlands.…
PEAKE, Harold John Edward. Ellesmere, Shropshire 29.9.1867 — 22.9.1946. British lay Anthropologist and Archaeologist. Son of Rev. John Peake, Vicar of Ellesmere, and his wife Matilda. Hon. M.A. 1925 Liverpool. Trained in estate management at Leicester. With his wife went around the world and stayed some time in a ranch in…
MARCEL-DUBOIS, Claudie. Tours 19.1.1913 — Paris 1.2.1989. French Pianist and Ethnomusicologist. Studies at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique. In the 1930s also studied anthropology under M. Mauss and P. Masson-Oursel. From 1934 she worked in the Music department of Musée d’ethnographie de Trocadéro. Also taught ethnomusicology at É.H.S.S. Publications: “Notes sur…
MAJOR, Richard Henry. Jersey (Wikipedia: Shoreditch, London) 3.10.1818 — Kensington 25.6.1891. British Geographer. Son of the elder R.H. Major, a physician, and his wife Elizabeth. The father died when he was three and he was brought up by his paternal grandfather. School in London (Merchant Taylors’ School). From 1844 in…
LOBSIGER-DELLENBACH, Marguerite (née M. D.). Geneva 9.7.1905 — Onex, Geneva 1993. Swiss Anthropologist and Ethnomusicologist. From 1922 secretary of anthropologist Eugène Pittard. Ph.D. 1935 Geneva (diss. on palaeolithic population of Switzerland). From 1947 Vice-Director and in 1952-67 Director of Musée d’ethnographie in Geneva (Pittard’s successor). Fieldwork in Nepal in 1952. Married…
LE BONHEUR, Albert. Saigon 6.8.1938 — Paris 8.2.1996. French Art Historian of South and South-East Asia. Educated in Saigon, Hanoi and Paris, studied art history, Sanskrit and Tamil in Paris. Diplome of École du Louvre 1966. Then conservator in Musée Guimet, from 1971 also taught at École du Louvre. Ph.D. 1978…
KUNIKE, Hugo. Hamburg 2.3.1887 — 1945/49. German Anthropologist. Son of a merchant, gymnasium in Wandsbek. Studies of ethnology, philosophy and comparative linguistics at Berlin. Ph.D. 1912 Leipzig. In 1909-19 worked as wissenschaftlicher Hilfsarbeiter in Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, then private scholar in Berlin. Publications: Diss. Couvade oder das sogenannte Männerkindbett. Halle…
KIPLING, John Lockwood. Kirbymoorside near Pickering, Yorkshire 6.7.1837 — Tisbury, Wiltshire 26.1.1911. British Art Teacher, Illustrator and Museum Curator in India. Son of Rev. Joseph Kipling, a Methodist minister, and Frances Lockwood. Educated at Wesleyan Woodhouse Grove school near Bradford, then learned ceramic art. From 1859 worked on exterior terracotta…
JAGOR, Andreas Fedor. Berlin 30.11.1816 — Berlin 11.2.1900. German Anthropologist and Naturalist. Worked for Berlin Museum für Naturkunde. In 1859-61 travelled in India, South-East Asia and Pacific, then in 1873-76 and 1890-93 in Indonesia. Also collected plants. A keen photographer. His collections and photos were deposited in Berlin Museum für Völkerkunde.…
HENCKEN, Hugh O’Neill. New York City 8.1.1902 — Cape Cod 31.8.1981.U.S. Archaeologist. Born to an Irish American family, son of Albert Charles Hencken (1871–1951) and Mary Creighton O’Neill (1874–1929). Studies at Princeton and Cambridge. Ph.D. 1929 Cambridge, in Archaeology. From 1932 to his retirement in 1972 Curator of European archaeology at…