Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Die ethnographisch-anthropologische Abtheilung des Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg : ein Beitrag zur Kunde der Sudsee-Volker
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
L. Freiderichsen & Co.
Place
Date
1881
Physical Description
xliii, 687 pages, xlvi leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 map (folded), 1 table (folded) ; 23 cm.
Language
German
Collection
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Related Object Notes
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N5297 CAT Catalogue of the Mackelvie Collection for Auckland, New Zealand
Edition/State/Version
1st edition
Subject Category
Content
Includes information on: Fiji, Rotuma, New Zealand, Tonga, Futuna, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Kiribati, Rapanui, Tahiti and Hawaii as well as Micronesia and New Guinea.
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Museum Godeffroy--Catalogues; Ethnological museums and collections--Germany--Hamburg--Catalogues; Anthropological museums and collections--Germany--Hamburg--Catalogues; Rare books--19th century]
See link in this record to a Wikipedia article about Museum Godeffroy. Includes index. Maori references pages 188-9, 467-70 and 640-1. Cf. Bagnall, 2443.
Associated Notes
Subject Notes
Johannes Dietrich Eduard Schmeltz (19 May 1839 - 26 May 1909) was a German ethnographer and naturalist.
Schmeltz had no formal scientific training but studied with many well established Hamburg naturalists including Georg Semper, Otto Semper, Carl Friedrich August Alexander Crⁿger and Johann Georg Christian Lehmann. A keen lepidopterist he corresponded with Philipp Christoph Zeller. In 1863 Schmeltz became "Kustos" or senior curator of the Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg, which specialised in the natural history and ethnography of the South Seas. The museum was described in Dutch, Danish, German, English, and Austrian scientific journals as one of the best collections of its kind. His main business was to transfer all the natural and ethnographic material, which had been collected, to the accordant university departments for identification. He remained in this post after suspension of payment of J. C Godeffroy & Sohn in December 1879. In 1885 all inventory had to be sold as the whole quarter, where the museum had been located, was to be demolished for new buildings. By then an authority on the ethnography of the Pacific islands he left Hamburg in 1882 to become the conservator of the Rijks Ethnographisch Museum in Leiden. He was director of the museum from 1897 to 1909.
Schmeltz was one of the founders and editor of Internationales Archiv fⁿr Ethnographie (Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden, 1888-1968), an anthropological journal. Amongst the contributors and editorial panel were Otto Finsch and Rudolf Virchow and Edward Burnett Tylor. At this time he had the title "Doktor".
The correspondence of Johann Schmeltz (more than 3,000 letters, mainly from the period 1887-1900) is kept in Leiden University Library.--Wikipedia, retrieved August 2020.
Collection Type
Reserve Collection
Copyright
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Last Update
06 Dec 2024
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