Tessmann, Günter, b. 1884
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sd09The Indians of northeastern Peru
The Indians of northeastern Perubook chapter 1930
- Summary
- Günter Theodor Tessmann was a German anthropologist, explorer, botanist and zoologist who travelled in Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Peru. He wrote a two volume work on the Fang people, Die Pangwe (1913), and another on the people of Peru in Die Indianer Nordost-Perus (1930). He also collected natural history specimens and cultural artefacts for German museums, particularly in his hometown Lübeck. A number of species were described from his collections including the plant genera Tessmannia, Tassmannianthus and Tessmanniodoxa. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1884-04-02 [2][4]
- Birth Place
- Lübeck [2]
- Lübeck [4]
- Died
- 1969-11-15 [2][4]
- Death Place
- Curitiba [2][4]
- Country
- Germany [2]
- Brazil [2]
- Language
- German [3]
- Occupation
- botanist [4]
- zoologist [4]
- ethnologist [4]
- botanical collector [4]
- zoological collector [4]
- explorer [4]
- big game hunter [4]
- scientific collector [4]
- agronomist [4]
- Employer
- Museu Paranaense [4]
- Work Place
- Curitiba [2]
- Educated at
- Deutsche Kolonialschule [4]
- Country of Education
- Germany [4]
- Archives at
- Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography [4]
- World Cultures Collection, Lübecker Museums [4]
- Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Archive [4]
- Archive of the Deutsches Museum [4]
- German Federal Archives [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
- 5. Library of Congress
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