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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000046b.htm person Finsch Otto AACR2 8 August 1839 31 January 1917 Place of Birth Warmbrunn, Germany Place of Death Braunschweig, Germany Ornithologist Ethnologist Otto Finsch joined the Museum of Natural History in Leiden, Holland to pursue his love of ornithology. His interests broadened to ethnology when in 1864 he joined Bremen's Museum of Natural History and Ethnography. He remained at that museum for over 10 years becoming its director in 1876. Finsch's first exploration to the Pacific was in 1879 and was funded by the Humboldt Foundation. His second trip was in 1884 and was not for scientific exploration, but for finding land suitable for habitation. This trip was organised by the South Sea Plotters – a group of influential Germans wanting to set up German colonies in the Pacific – of which Finsch was a member. Finsch returned to Germany and ethnological studies in the late 1880s. He was a division head at the Museum of Natural History in Leiden, then at the Municipal Museum in Braunschweig, Germany. Otto Finsch built up a large collection of material from the Pacific especially primitive money and was appointed professor by the duke of Braunschweig. 1861 1863 Career position - Assistant, Museum of Natural History in Leiden, Holland 1864 1875 Career position - Curator of the Museum of Natural History and Ethnography in Bremen, Germany 1868 1868 Education - Honorary Doctorate, University of Bonn in Germany 1876 Career position - Director of the Museum of Natural History and Ethnography in Bremen 1879 1882 Career position - Expedition to the Pacific 1884 1885 Career position - Expedition to Australia and the Pacific including Duke of York Islands, East Cape, Humbolt Bay on the Samoa 1897 1904 Career position - Division Head, Museum of Natural History in Leiden, Holland

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 'Finsch, Otto', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Finsch, Otto Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Prof. Dr. Finschs Anteil an der Erwebung des deutschen Suedseeschutzgebites Singelmann Prof. Dr. Finschs Anteil an der Erwebung des deutschen Suedseeschutzgebites 1909 Deutsche Kolonialzeitung October Book Section: Finsch, Otto (1839-1917), ornithologist, ethnologist and pioneer of German colonialism Sack, P. G. Finsch, Otto (1839-1917), ornithologist, ethnologist and pioneer of German colonialism Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1972 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J Douglas Pike 170-171 Book: Systematische Uebersicht der Ergebnisse seiner Reisen und schriftstellerischen Thätigkeit (1859 - 1899) Finsch, O. Systematische Uebersicht der Ergebnisse seiner Reisen und schriftstellerischen Thätigkeit (1859 - 1899) Berlin R. Friedlander & Sohn 1899 Book: Neu-Guinea und seine Bewohner Finsch, O. Neu-Guinea und seine Bewohner Bremen, Germany C. Ed. Muller 1865 Book Section: Russia and the Pacific: expeditions, networks, and the acquisition of human remains Govor, E.; and Howes, H. Russia and the Pacific: expeditions, networks, and the acquisition of human remains London: New York Routledge 2020 The Routledge companion to indigenous repatriation: return, reconcile, renew Fforde, C.; McKeown, C. T.; and Keeler, H. 295-315 Resource Section: A "perceptive observer" in the Pacific: life and work of Otto Finsch Howes, Hilary A "perceptive observer" in the Pacific: life and work of Otto Finsch Paris 2018 Berose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie Journal Article: Between wealth and poverty: Otto Finsch on Mabuyag, 1881 Howes, Hilary Between wealth and poverty: Otto Finsch on Mabuyag, 1881 2015 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Culture 8 1 221-51 Journal Article: "It is not so": Otto Finsch, Expectations and Encounters in the Pacific, 1865-85 Howes, Hilary S. "It is not so": Otto Finsch, Expectations and Encounters in the Pacific, 1865-85 2011 Historical Records of Australian Science 22 1 32-52