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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2024-07-29 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2024-08-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007447b.htm person Luschan Felix von AACR2 11 August 1854 7 February 1924 Place of Birth Hollabrunn, Lower Austria Physical anthropologist Archaeologist Explorer Ethnographer Medical practitioner 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) Berry, Richard James Arthur (1867 - 1962)

Hosted a presentation by von Luschen title 'Culture and degeneration'

 Stirling, Edward Charles (Ted) (1848 - 1919)

Presumed to have met in Adelaide c1914

 British Association for the Advancement of Science 84th Meeting (1914)

Overseas guest

 'Luschan, Felix von', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Luschan, Felix von Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania Pybus, Cassandra A very secret trade: the dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania Sydney Allen & Unwin 2024