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, vol. 4 (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

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See also

  • Nettelbeck, Amanda (and others), The Overland Telegraph Line: A Transcultural History, [web resource; undated], South Australian Government, South Australia, 2023. https://otlhistory.sa.gov.au/. Details

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