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Anatole von Hügel (29 September 1854, in
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– 15 August 1928, in
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) was a son of an Austrian nobleman who lived in England and was curator of the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology, 1883 – 1921.


Early life

Born into the German noble House of Hügel, he was the second son of
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Charles von Hügel Charles von Hügel (born Carl Alexander Anselm Baron von Hügel; 25 April 1795 – 2 June 1870), sometimes spelt in English Huegel, was an Austrian nobleman, army officer, diplomat, botanist, and explorer, now primarily remembered for his tr ...
and his Scottish wife Elizabeth Farquharson. His elder brother was
Friedrich von Hügel Friedrich von Hügel (born ''Friedrich Maria Aloys Franz Karl Freiherr von Hügel'', usually known as ''Baron von Hügel''; 5 May 1852 – 27 January 1925) was an influential Austrian Catholic layman, religious writer, and Christian apologist. A ...
and his sister was Pauline von Hügel.


Biography

His family moved to England in 1867 after his father's retirement, and he was educated at
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. From 1874 to 1878 he collected natural history specimens in
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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. He became an authority on Fiji, after his lengthy travels in the practically unknown interior of
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to record the original Fijian culture before British colonisation. In 1880 he married Eliza Margaret Froude, daughter of
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and in 1883 he became the first curator of the
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. He remained curator until 1921, raising funds for the new building. In 1889 he was admitted to
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and received an MA. Hügel was founder and first president (1895 to 1922) of the Cambridge University Catholic Association, and was co-founder of
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with
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. There is a memorial plaque to Baron Anatole von Hügel on the wall in the St John Fisher chapel of
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in Cambridge. He was buried in Cambridge Cemetery on 20 August 1928, as was his wife, a member of the Cambridge
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with 11 other members. Hügel privately published a biography of his father in 1903.''Charles von Hügel'': April 25, 1795 - June 2, 1870. Cambridge. 1903.


See also

* Von Hügel Institute *
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References

*''The Fiji Journals of Baron Anatole Von Hugel 1875-1877'', Roth, Jane and Steven Hooper (eds.), Suva: Fiji Museum in association with Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology, 1990 *''Baron Anatole von Hugel'', Obituary by A. C. Haddon & Alfred P. Maudslay in ''Man'', Vol. 28 pp 169–171 (Oct. 1928) *''Anatole von Hugel, Baron'', Peter W. Allott in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography


External links


biographical sketch
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