Person

Luschan, Felix von (1854 - 1924)

Born
11 August 1854
Hollabrunn, Lower Austria
Died
7 February 1924
Occupation
Archaeologist, Ethnographer, Explorer, Medical practitioner and Physical anthropologist

Summary

In 1911 Felix von Luschan was appointed to the first chair of anthropology at the Frederick William University in Berlin (later the Humboldt University). His extensive travels included visiting Australia in 1914 for the British Association for the Advancement of Science 84th meeting in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide and was in Australia for the declaration of the war with Germany (the Great War, later World War1). In Sydney he also addressed the Eugenics Education Society. During his long career he assemble a vast collection of 'some five and half thousand skulls, both ancient and contemporary, including dozens taken from First Peoples in remote parts of Australia by German anthropologists' (Pybus 2024 pages 237-238)

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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260