John Stanislaw Kubary (13 November 1846 in

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– 9 October 1896 in

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), also stated as Jan Stanisław Kubary, Jan Kubary, or Johann Stanislaus Kubary, was a Polish naturalist and

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

. In 1868 he became a collector for

Museum Godeffroy The Museum Godeffroy was a museum in Hamburg, Germany, which existed from 1861 to 1885. The collection was founded by Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy, who became a wealthy shipping magnate a few years after the expansion of the trade towards Austr ...

in Hamburg. Kubary documented at least four bird species: the Samoan wood rail (''Gallinula pacifica''), the Mariana crow (''Corvus kubaryi''), the Caroline Islands ground dove (''Gallicolumba kubaryi''), and the

Pohnpei fantail The Pohnpei fantail (''Rhipidura kubaryi'') is a fantail, known as Likepsir in Pohnpeian, which is endemic to the Pacific island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. It is a bird commonly found in forests and at forest edges. It ...

(''Rhipidura kubaryi''), as well as numerous insects, among them the paradise birdwing butterfly (''

Ornithoptera paradisea ''Ornithoptera paradisea'', the paradise birdwing, is a species of birdwing butterfly found in New Guinea. History Arnold Pagenstecher and Staudinger both described this butterfly, under different names and the first description by Staudinge ...

''). The peak

Mount Kubari Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, ...

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is named after him. He made the first detailed description of Nan Madol in 1874.

Works

Partial list: *with

Alfred Tetens Alfred Tetens (1 July 1835, in Wilster – 13 January 1903, in Hamburg) was a German captain, South Seas explorer and Senator of Hamburg. Life Tetens was the son of a ''Justizrat'' (senior counsel) and senator in Danish services. For many years ...

and Eduard Gräffe ''The Carolines island of Yap or Guap according to the reports of Alfred Tetens and Johann Kubary'' "Die Carolineninsel Yap oder Guap nach den Mittheilungen von Alf. Tetens und Johann Kubary" Microform Reprint New Haven, Conn. *Die Palau-Inseln in der Suedsee: Das Palau Geld, 49–53. ''Journal des Museum Godeffroy'', I, 4. Hamburg (1873) *Weitere Nachrichten von der Insel Ponape (Carolinen-Archipel) ''Journal des Museum Godeffroy'' Heft VII. Hamburg, L. Friedrichsen & Co. pp. 129-135 (1875) *''Ethnographische Beitraege zur Kenntnis des Karolinen Archipels'', Heft 1:'' Ueber das Einheimische Geld auf der Insel Yap und auf den Palau-Inseln'' Leiden (1889)

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Johann Schmeltz Johannes Dietrich Eduard Schmeltz (19 May 1839 – 26 May 1909) was a German ethnographer and naturalist. Schmeltz had no formal scientific training but studied with many well established Hamburg naturalists including Georg Semper, Otto Semper ...

1897. "Johann Stanislaus Kubary, der Erforscher der Südsee-Inseln, gest. im Oktober 1896 auf der Insel Ponape." ohann Stanislaus Kubary, the researcher of the South Sea Islands, who died in October 1896 on the island of Pohnpei Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie 10, pp. 132–136.Long obituary of Kubar

1846 births 1896 deaths Polish naturalists Polish ornithologists Polish ethnographers Scientists from Warsaw {{ethnographer-stub