Georg Thilenius

Georg Christian Thilenius (4 October 1868 – 28 December 1937) was a German physician and anthropologist who was a native of Soden am Taunus.

He studied medicine in

As director of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnography, Thilenius coordinated the 1908-1910 Südsee-Expedition, a scientific expedition to German administered territories in Micronesia and Melanesia. Members of the research group included Friedrich Fülleborn (1866-1933), Augustin Krämer (1865–1941), Paul Hambruch (1882-1933), Otto Reche (1879-1966), Ernst Sarfert (1882-1937) and Wilhelm Müller-Wismar (1881-1916). Over 15,000 objects and artifacts from the South Pacific were brought back to Hamburg, which were documented until 1938 (23 volumes).^[1]

He was a member of the Kolonialinstitut in Hamburg, an institute where he served as chairman from 1908 to 1910. He also worked as a lecturer at the institute, which was the predecessor of

• Ethnographische ergebnisse aus Melanesien I Theil, Die westlichen Inseln des Bismarck-Archipels (Ethnographic results from Melanesia part I, the western islands of the Bismarck Archipelago), Leipzig, 1902–03. Part II published in 1903.^[2]
• Die Bedeutung der Meeresströmungen für die Besiedelung Melanesiens (The importance of ocean currents for the settlement of Melanesia) Hamburg 1906.
• Das Hamburgische Museum für Völkerkunde (The Hamburg Museum of Ethnology), Berlin 1916.
• Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908 - 1910 (Results of the South Seas Expedition 1908 - 1910), Hamburg 1914 ff. (as editor).

References

• This article incorporates translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.

External links

• Newspaper clippings about Georg Thilenius in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

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