Person
Mathew, John (1849 - 1929)
- Born
- 31 May 1849
Aberdeen, Scotland - Died
- 11 March 1929
Coburg, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Anthropologist and Minister of religion
Summary
John Mathew, a presbyterian minister, pursued his interest in Aboriginal ethnography on which he published two books and numerous articles. He lived on Manumbar station in the Burnett district, Queensland 1865-1870.
Details
Chronology
- 1921 - 1929
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Anthropology), Australian National Research Council
Related entries
Archival resources
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
- John Mathew - Records, 1869 - 1929; Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Details
John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland
- John Mathew - Records, 1869 - 1929, OM74-17; John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland. Details
Queensland State Archives
- John Mathew - Records, 1869 - 1900, EDB/02 & V2; Queensland State Archives. Details
Published resources
Books
- Mathew, John, Eaglehawk and crow : a study of the Australian Aborigines including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages (London: Melbourne: David Nutt: Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1899), 288 pp. Details
- Mathew, John: with an introduction by A. H. Keane, Two representative tribes of Queensland : with an inquiry concerning the origin of the Australian race (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910), 256 pp, https://archive.org/details/tworepresentativ00math. Details
- Prentis, Malcolm D., Science, Race and Faith: a Life of John Mathew, 1849-1929 (Sydney: Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, 1998), 240 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Prentis, M. D., 'Mathew, John (1849-1929)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 440-441. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100429b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Mathew, John, 'The Australian Aborigines', Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 23 (1889), 335-449. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.359073. Details
- Prentis, Malcolm D., 'From Aberdeen to Coburg: a Lad o' Pairts in Australia', Northern Scotland, 12 (1992), 106-116. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6247142. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/63795541. Details
- 'Mathew, John (1849-1929)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-630802. Details
See also
- Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_m.html. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 7 April 2022
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