Wilhelm Müller-Wismar
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Wilhelm Müller-Wismar (20 May 1881 – 13 October 1916) was a German
ethnographer Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...
. A native of
Wismar Wismar (; ), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar () is, with around 43,000 inhabitants, the sixth-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the fourth-largest city of Mecklenburg after Rostock, Schwerin and ...
, he graduated in 1905 from the
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, where he studied
ethnography Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...
and
anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...
under
Felix von Luschan Felix Ritter von Luschan (; 11 August 18547 February 1924) was a medical doctor, anthropologist, explorer, archaeologist and ethnographer born in the Austrian Empire. Life Luschan was born the son of a lawyer in Hollabrunn, Lower Austria, and at ...
(1854-1924). From 1908 to 1910 he was a member of a scientific mission to the South Pacific that was coordinated by
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 Bonn and Berlin, and in 1896 was habilitated as an anatomist at the Universi ...
(1868-1937) of the
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Museum of Ethnography. On the expedition he spent nine months on the island of
Yap Yap (, sometimes written as , or ) traditionally refers to an island group located in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, a part of Yap State. The name "Yap" in recent years has come to also refer to the state within the Federate ...
, about which an important scientific treatise was later published. He also took part in the Berlin-Indonesian expedition to the South Moluccas in 1913–14. Müller-Wismar died from
typhoid Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by ''Salmonella enterica'' serotype Typhi bacteria, also called ''Salmonella'' Typhi. Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. Often ther ...
on 10 October 1916, at the age of 35 in
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,
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.


Publications

* ''Beiträge zur Kraniologie der Neu-Britannier'', Hamburg : Kommissionsverlag von L. Gräfe & Sillem, 1906 – Contributions involving the craniology of New Britons. * ''Yap'', Hamburg, L. Friederichsen & Co., 1917–18; part of the series "Ergebnisse der Südsee-expedition, 1908-1910"; work also translated into English.OCLC Classify
publications


References

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