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Important
Bequests at the Ibero-American Institute
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Ethnohistory
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+49 030 / 266 2516
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> Ehrenreich,
Paul (1855-1914)
> Gaelzer-Neto,
Guilherme
> Kutscher,
Gerdt (1913-1979)
> Lehmann,
Walter (1878-1939)
> Lehmann-Nitsche,
Robert (1872-1938)
> Maler,
Teobert (1842-1917)
> Quesada,
Vicente Gaspar/ Quesada, Ernesto
> Schottelius,
Justus Wolfram (1892-1941)
> Seler,
Eduard (1849-1922)
> Steffen,
Friedrich Emil Hans (1865-1936)
> Uhle,
Max (1856-1944)
> Weberbauer,
August (1871-1948)
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small or partial bequests and documents in possession of
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Ehrenreich,
Paul (1855-1914)
Having
initially studied medicine, Paul Ehrenreich dedicated himself to ethnology
and physical anthropology. He undertook expeditions to the Indio tribes of
central and eastern Brazil in the years 1884 to 1885, and from 1887 to
1889 his travels served the study of comparative mythology and lingustics.
His bequest comprises 71 folders with notes, manuscripts, photos, and
off-prints.
Gaelzer-Neto-Guilherme
This bequest contains an extensive collection
of black-and-white photos and illustrations from Brazil, four photo albums
of exhibitions (presentations by Brazil in Germany) spanning the years
1938-1941, diverse newspaper clippings, two almanac notebooks with
diary-type entries (1939-1940), and some letters. From 1921 to 1941, G.
Gaelzer-Neto was the principal director of the official Brazil Propaganda
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Kutscher,
Gerdt (1913-1979)
Dedicated to the study of archaeology,
ethnology and history of art of Latin America Gerdt Kutscher, a Berliner,
was closely associated with the Ibero-American Institute, having worked
there for many years (1934-1979), during the final years of which he was
director of research (1970) and deputy director (1974-78). His research
was centered on the Chimu- and Moche civilization (Peru) and work on the
Lehmann bequest, but also on Meso-American studies. Gerdt Kutscher
bequeathed a vast collection to the Ibero-American Institute comprising a
total of 89 folders and boxes. These contain manuscripts, notes on his
research work, lecture notes, book projects, drawings, private papers,
files documenting his activities at the Ibero-American Institute and as a
professor at the Free University of Berlin’s Latin American Institute,
illustrations, and tapes. Among these are many manuscripts and texts by
other Latin America anthropologists and archaeologists from Berlin. This
bequest represents an important resource for those involved with the
history of Latin America anthropology and archaeology in Berlin. An
inventory was drawn up by Günther Vollmer in 1987.
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Lehmann,
Walter (1878-1939)
His research was centered on Indio languages,
archaeology, ethnology, folklore, and mythology in Central America and
Meso-America. In 1907-1909, he was sent by the Museum for Ethnology
(Berlin) from Panama to Mexico. Further expeditions to Latin America were
to follow in the years 1925-1926 and 1929-1930. The partial bequest in the
care of the Ibero-American Institute includes a vast picture archive,
off-prints, newspaper clippings, numerous manuscripts of publications and
lectures, exhibition material, lecture notes, travel diaries, sketches and
drawings, maps, letters, and a handwritten compilation of the vocabulary
of the Indio languages. Walter Lehmann collected a total of 348 cases of
documents covering a great variety of subjects from the fields of
archaeology, folklore, ethnography, cosmology, ethno-astronomy, and
languages (including Europe, Asia, Africa). Also worth mentioning is a
large collection of depictions of catholic saints. His bequest also
consists of manuscripts and handwritten papers by other scholars.
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Lehmann Nitsche, Robert
(1872-1938)
Robert Lehmann-Nitsche, physical
anthropologist, folklorist and ethnologist lived in La Plata from 1897 to
1930, where he worked as head of a department of a museum and held a chair
for anthropology. He undertook numerous journeys through Argentina and
worked on anthro- pology, mythology, and ethnology, but also on folklore,
notably on Creole ethnic studies (Gaucho civilization) in the La Plata
region. The Ibero-American Institute has photos, negatives, letters,
newspaper clippings, business cards, and manuscripts on scientific
research work. A collection of South American light fiction has been
included in the holdings of the Ibero-American Institute. The majority of
his manuscripts has been published. Still unpublished is a manuscript
containing orally handed-down texts in the Araucanian language. These
texts include narratives on historically important Indian leaders, myths,
dialogs, letters, fairytales, fables, and songs. His extensive
correspondence (including the correspondence with Max Uhle and Eduard
Seler, among others) is of interest for research work concerning the
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Maler,
Teobert (1842-1917)
Teobert Maler, who had studied architecture,
first traveled to Mexico in 1865 in the entourage of Emperor Maximilian.
In the years 1865-1877 and 1884-1894, he traveled throughout southern
Mexico and from 1895-1905 to Guatemala. Teobert Maler is recognized as one
of the pioneers of research into the sites of Maya ruins, but also into
the word lists of the Totonac and Zapotec languages. He produced a vast
treasury of excellent photos and drawings. The Ibero-American Institute
holds numerous photos, sketches, plans, architectural drawings of Maya
ruins, newspaper clippings, the diary of a journey to Veracruz
(1902-1903), notebooks with diary-type entries and sketches (1886-1895), a
three-volume manuscript describing Yucateque ruins (recently
published), as well as manuscripts describing Maya ruins in the Petén
area, northern Guatemala and the Usumacinta area of southern
Mexico. |
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Quesada,
Vicente, Gaspar/ Quesada Ernesto
Manuscripts, newspaper clippings, notes,
documents, poems, general and family correspondence, as well as numerous
photos make up the Quesada bequest which is divided into three parts: the
bequest of the Argentine diplomat Vicente Gaspar Quesada (1830-1913); that
of his son, the lawyer Ernesto Quesada (1858-1934); and that of the
latter’s second wife, the German writer Leonore Niessen Deiters
(1879-1939). In 1928, Ernesto Quesada donated his private library,
including about 80,000 volumes and a large collection of handwritten
manuscripts, to the State of Prussia. This donation constituted the
foundation of the Ibero-American Institute in 1930. This donation of books
was entered as part of the holdings of the Ibero-American Institute. A
part of this collection, and also the handwritten manuscripts, were lost
during the war. The current bequest consists of documents Ernesto Quesada
took with him to Switzerland in 1928 and which only came into the
possession of the Ibero-American Institute after his death. These items
are unpublished manuscripts and book projects by his father and
correspondence dating from the last years of his life (among them the
Spengler letters). The bequest was revised by Reinhard Liehr in 1983 and
an inventory drawn up and descriptions compiled by Günther Vollmer in
1993. |
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Schottelius, Justus Wolfram
(1892-1941)
Justus Wolfram Schottelius, playwright and
author, also studied the more general history of colonial South America
and the archaeology of Mexico. Forced to leave Germany in 1938, he went to
Colombia where, until his death, he worked at the Archaeological Museum in
Bogota, doing research into the archaeology and ethnology of Colombia. The
bequest comprises four boxes and two cases of slides. The boxes contain
eight manuscripts of narrations or general studies on Mexico, parts of
which have been published. It also includes about 80 black-and-white
photos from this time in Colombia as well as newspaper clippings, notes,
illustrations, lay-outs, and sketches that deal mostly with Mexico.
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Seler,
Eduard (1849-1922)
Eduard Seler is considered the founder of
German pre-colonial Mexican and Latin America anthropology and
archaeology. He traveled to Mexico six times during the years 1887 and
1910 and set up important archaeological collections. His work was focused
on pre-Hispanic codices, handwriting from the early colonial period, as
well as the mythology, cosmology, and religion of ancient Meso-America
(Mexico and Guatemala). In the partial bequest at the Ibero-American
Institute are, among other material, 235 small cases containing about
800-1000 vocabulary notes on 38 Indio languages, notably the Nahuatl
language. But there are also numerous photos and illustrations, newspaper
clippings, drawings, sketches, transcriptions of codices, and large-format
tracing samples. |
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Steffen,
Friedrich Emil Hans (1865-1936)
From 1889-1913, the geographer Steffen was
employed as an instructor of teachers in Santiago de Chile. From
1892-1898, he was a technical consultant for the Chilean expert commission
that mediated in the border controvery between Chile and Argentina. In
this capacity, he traveled to Patagonia from 1893-1994 and from 1896-1897.
His bequest consists of travel diaries, sketches, notes, lecture
manuscripts, brochures, maps, and slides from the years he spent in
Chile. |
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Uhle, Max
(1856-1944)
The Latin America anthropologist and
archaeologist Max Uhle is considered the father of methodical archaeology
in South America. His work focused on the central Andean area.
He
also produced studies of Indio languages
(Aymara, Uru, Chipya, Quechua). From 1892-95 he performed research in
Argentina and Bolivia, in 1895-1911 in Peru, in 1911-1919 in Chile, and in
1919-1933 in Ecuador. His bequest comprises manuscripts, notes, letters,
over 100 plans, photos, sketches, over 170 small-sized notebooks, lecture
manuscripts, off-prints, and some unpublished excavation reports. The
notebooks from the years 1892 to 1917 were systematically disclosed some
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Weberbauer, August
(1871-1948)
In the years 1901 to 1904, and again from 1908
to 1948, August Weberbauer undertook numerous journeys through Peru on the
authority of the Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Royal
Prussian Society of Sciences), the Field Museum of Natural History Chicago
and the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, and set up an
extensive collection of over 8,000 botanical items. On his travels he
discovered and classified numerous new plants. Over 250 plants were named
after him.
Only interrupted for a short period from
1906-1907, when Mr. Weberbauer was director of the botanical gardens in
Victoria (Cameroon), he dedicated himself to the study of the Peruvian
flora. In 1908, he became director of the botanical and zoological gardens
in Lima, and from 1922 onwards he held a chair for botany and
pharmaceutical chemistry at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
in Lima.
August Weberbauer laid the foundations for
methodical botany in Peru. His most important publication, "Die
Planzenwelt der peruanischen Anden" ("The flora of the Peruvian Andes") is
still among the ten fundamental works on the botany of
Peru.
The partial bequest in the care of the
Ibero-American Institute comprises 7 diaries, 5 travel logs, 53 notebooks,
4 manuscripts, 12 catalogs of plants and other materials, among them also
documents and photos. These documents not only give insight into the life
and work of this important pioneer of Peruvian botany, but also provide
geological, climatological, geographical and ethnological information
about Peru during the years 1901 to 1948. The Ibero-American Institute was
able to acquire this partial bequest owing to the generous support of the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Society) in the
year 2000.
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