Person
Strehlow, Carl Friedrich Theodor (1871 - 1922)
- Born
- 23 December 1871
Fredersdorf, Uckermark, Germany - Died
- 20 October 1922
Horseshoe Bend, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Ethnologist, Linguist, Minister of religion and Missionary
Summary
Carl Strehlow was head of the Lutheran Finke River Mission, Hermannsburg from 1894-1922. He became fluent in the languages of the Aranda and Loritja people and his seven-volume work on their myths, legends, material culture and customs was published between 1907and 1920. He is commemorated by the Carl Strehlow Memorial Hospital at Hermannsburg and the Strehlow Research Centre in Alice Springs.
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Chronology
- 1891
- Education - Graduated from the Neuendettelsau seminary in Germany
- 1892
- Career position - Ordained
- 1892 - 1894
- Career position - Worked for the Immanuel Synod near Cooper's Creek in South Australia
- 1894 - 1922
- Career position - Head of Finke River Mission in Hermannsburg, Northern Territory
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Published resources
Books
- Bandhauer, Andrea and Veber, Maria, eds, Migration and Cultural Contact: Germany and Australia (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009), 254 pp. Details
- Kenny, Anna, The Aranda's Pepa: an introduction to Carl Strehlow's masterpiece Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien (1907-1920) (Canberra: ANU Press, 2013), 310 pp. Details
- Kenny, Anna, Carl Strehlow's 1909 comparative heritage dictionary: an Aranda, German, Loritja and Dieri to English dictionary with introductory essays (Canberra: ANU Press, 2018), 375 pp. Details
- Strehlow, T. G. H., Journal to Horseshoe Bend (Artarmon, N.S.W.: Giramondo Publishing, 2015), 220 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Kenny, Anna, 'Early ethnographic work at the Hermannsburg mission in Central Australia 1877 - 1910' in German ethnography in Australia, Peterson, Nicolas and Kenny, Anna, eds (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2017), pp. 169-93. Details
- Veit, Walter, 'In Search of Carl Strehlow: Lutheran Missionary and Australian Anthropologist' in From Berlin to the Burdekin: The German Contribution to the Development of Australian Science, Exploration and the Arts, David Walker and Jurgen Tampke, eds (Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1991), pp. 108-134. Details
- Veit, Walter F., 'Strehlow, Carl Friedrich Theodor (1871-1922), missionary, [anthropologist]' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 121-122. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060223b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Brock, Peggy, 'Evangelism, ethnography and linguistics: Carl Strehlow and J. R. B. Love', Anthropological Forum, 27 (3) (2017), 224-39. Details
- Monteath, Peter, 'Erhard Eylmann's missionary position', Anthropological Forum, 27 (3) (2017), 240-55. Details
- Veit, Walter, 'Social anthropology versus cultural anthropology: Baldwin Walter Spencer and Carl Friedrich Theodor Strehlow in Central Australia', Occasional paper (Strehlow Research Centre), 3 (2004), 92-110. Details
- Veit, Walter F., 'Missionaries and their ethnographic instructions', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 127 (1) (2015), 73-82, https://doi.org/10.1071/RS15007. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q214951. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/5312461. Details
- 'Strehlow, Carl Friedrich (1871-1922)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-556667. Details
See also
- Carment, David et al ed., Northern Territory dictionary of biography (Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press, 2008), 655 pp. pp. 557-9. Details
- Jensz, Felicity, '"Poor heathens", "cone-headed natives" and "good water": the production of knowledge of the interior of Australia through German texts from around the 1860s', Postcolonial studies, 21 (1) (2018), 96-112. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 7 April 2022