Person

Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthis (1831 - 1914)

Born: 30 March 1831
Moorburg, Germany
Died: 31 January 1914
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Occupation: Dentist, Photographer and Policeman

Summary

Paul Foelsche was a German born Australian policeman, dentist, photographer, and gunsmith. Paul Foelsche also took extensive photographs of Indigenous Australians and made extensive notes on local Indigenous Australian languages. In 1881 his publication 'Notes on the Aborigines of North Australia' was read to the Royal Society of South Australia.

Archival resources

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Paul Foelsche : Australian Art and Artists file, 71376; Art Gallery of New South Wales. Details

South Australian Museum Archives

Records of AA 96 Paul Heinrich Matthias Foelsche, 1783 - 1930, AA 96; South Australian Museum Archives. Details

State Library of South Australia

The genesis of the police force in the Northern Territory, 1929 - 2002, Research Note .456; State Library of South Australia. Details

Published resources

Books

Foelsche, P, The photography of Paul Foelsche: Centenary exhibition (Darwin, Northern Territory: Corporation of the City of Darwin, 1970). Details
Newman, Ken, V. Mor. Bro. Paul Heinreich Mattias Foelsche (Sydney, New South Wales: The Masonic Historical Society of New South Wales, 1993). Details

Book Sections

Maxwell, Anne, 'White / Aboriginal relations on the colonial frontier reading the anthropometric photographs of Paul Foelsche' in Australia, Who Cares?, Callahan, David, ed. (Perth, Western Australia: Network Books, 2007), pp. 169 - 186. Details
Noye, R. J., 'Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias (1831 - 1941)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972). http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/foelsche-paul-heinrich-matthias-3543. Details

Journal Articles

'Inspector Foelsche', Public Service Review: South Australia, 10 (6) (1904), 73 - 74. http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:80/record=b2247226~S1. Details
'Paul Foelsche', Public Service Review: South Australia, 15 (6) (1909), 72. http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:80/record=b2251225~S1. Details
Foelsche, P, 'Notes on the Aborigines of North Australia', Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, 5 (1882), 1 - 18. Details
Foelsche, P., 'On the manners, customs, etc of some tribes of the Aborigines in the neighbourhood of Port Darwin and the west coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, North Australia', Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 24 (1895), 190-218. Details

Newspaper Articles

'Dinner to Sub-Inspector Foelsche', Adelaide Observer (1869), 13. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159466586. Details
'Complimentary Addresses to Inspector Paul Foelsche and Dr. Percy Moore Wood', Northern Territory Times Gazette (1885), 2. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3157167. Details
'Men and Matters: Mr. Paul Foelsche I.S.O', Evening Journal (1911), 1. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203459866. Details
'Death of Mr. Paul Foelsche: Oldest Resident of the Territory: Close of an Honored Career', The Advertiser (1914), 15. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5410380. Details
'Obituary: Death of Mr Paul Foelsche', Chronicle (1914), 42. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88831566. Details
'Police denounced as a 'disgrace' in Aboriginal murders: the remarkable Paul Foelsche: historical feature', Daily Mirror (1987), 50. Details
Dunstan, Rita, 'Camera-eye on Early Darwin', The Australian Women's Weekly (1969), 20 - 23. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43202463. Details

Resources

VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/91349990. Details
Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17004596. Details
Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias (AA 96), Short Biography and Photograph, South Australian Museum, http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/collections/information-resources/archives/foelsche-paul-heinrich-matthias-aa-96. Details
'Foelsche, P (18310330-19140131)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-461373. Details

Resource Sections

'FOELSCHE, Paul', in NT Police Museum and Historical Society Inc, NT Police Museum and Historical Society Inc, 9 January 2014. https://sites.google.com/site/ntpmhsociety/home/our-rich-history/people/biographies/foelsche-paul. Details

Theses

Smith, Timothy, 'The policeman's eye: the photography of Paul Foelsche', PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2011. Details
Willson, Bill, 'A Force Apart? A History of the Northern Territory Police Force 1870 - 1926', PhD thesis, Northern Territory University, 1 July 2000. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2MoRSR3RZIZZjg3NGIzY2YtZTk5OC00YjI0LTlmZjgtOTMxMGQ2ZjdmY2Yx/view. Details

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