Ethnologists

Afanasiy Prokopievich Shchapov (Афанасий Прокофьевич Щапов in Russian) ( May 10(17). 1830 – February 27(10.3). 1876) was a Russian historian accused of " Siberian nationalism" and persecuted by tsarist authorities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afanasy Shchapov"

Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin ( January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849) was an ethnologist, linguist, American politician, diplomat, and Secretary of the Treasury. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Gallatin"

Albert Samuel Gatschet ( October 3, 1832 - March 16, 1907) was an ethnologist. Born in Switzerland, he trained as a linguist in universities of Bern and Berlin. After his arrival in the United States, he was a pioneer in the study of Native American Languages. In 1877 he became an ethnologist of the US Geological Survey. In 1879 he became a member of the Bureau of American Ethnology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Samuel Gatschet"

Alfred Louis Kroeber ( June 11, 1876– October 5, 1960) was one of the most influential figures in American anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred L. Kroeber"

Alfred Vincent Kidder (1885 - 1963) was considered the foremost archaeologist of the southwestern United States and Middle America during the first half of the 20th century. He saw a disciplined system of archaeological techniques as a means to extend the principles of anthropology into the prehistoric past and so was the originator of the first comprehensive, systematic approach to North American archaeology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred V. Kidder"

Alice Cunningham Fletcher ( March 15, 1838, Havana, Cuba - April 6, 1923, Washington, D.C.) was an American ethnologist. She studied the remains of Indian civilization in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, became a member of the Archaeological Institute of America in 1879, and worked and lived with the Omahas as a representative of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alice Cunningham Fletcher"

Charles Gabriel Seligman ( 1873- 1940) was a British ethnologist. Born in London, Seligman studied medicine at St. Thomas' Hospital. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Gabriel Seligman"

Daniel Garrison Brinton ( May 13, 1837- July 31, 1899), was an American archaeologist and ethnologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daniel Garrison Brinton"

Elman Service was a cultural anthropologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elman Service"

Felix von Luschan, also Felix Ritter von Luschan (b. 11 August 1854 in Hollabrunn, Austria; d. 7 February 1924 in Berlin) was a doctor, anthropologist, explorer, archaeologist and ethnographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Felix von Luschan"

Frank Hamilton Cushing July 22, 1857- April 10, 1900 was born in Northeastern Pennsylvania, later moving with his family to western New York. As a boy he took an interest in the Native American artifacts in the surrounding countryside and taught himself how to knap flint (make arrowheads and such from flint). He published his first scientific paper when he was only 17. After a brief period at Cornell University at 19, he was appointed curator of the ethnological department of the National Museum in Washington, D.C. by the director of the Smithsonian Institution. There he came to the attention of John Wesley Powell, of the Bureau of American Ethnology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frank Hamilton Cushing"

Georg August Schweinfurth ( December 29, 1836 – September 19, 1925), German botanist, traveller in East Central Africa and ethnologist, was born at Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire. He was educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin (1856-1862), where he particularly devoted himself to botany and palaeontology. Commissioned to arrange the collections brought from the Sudan by Freiherr von Barnim and Dr Hartmann, his attention was directed to that region; and in 1863 he travelled round the shores of the Red Sea, repeatedly traversed the district between that sea and the Nile, passed on to Khartum, and returned to Europe in 1866. His researches attracted so much attention that in 1868 the Humboldt-Stiftung of Berlin entrusted him with an important scientific mission to the interior of East Africa. Starting from Khartum in January 1869, he went up the White Nile to Bahr-el-Ghazal, and then, with a party of ivory dealers, through the regions inhabited by the Diur (Dyoor), Dinka, Bongo and Niam-Niam; crossing the Nile watershed he entered the country of the Mangbettu (Monbuttu) and discovered the river Welle ( March 19 1870), which by its westward flow he knew was independent of the Nile. ...more on Wikipedia about "Georg August Schweinfurth"

Gerhardt Friedrich Müller (1705-1783) was an ethnologist who studied Siberia, Mongolia and China in Leibzig, Germany. He was invited in 1725 to co-found the academy of sciences in St Petersburg, Russia. Müller participated in the second Kamtschatka expedition, which reported on life and nature of the other side of the Ural mountain range to the Moscow. From 1733 till 1743, nineteen scientists and artists traveled through Siberia to study people, cultures and collected data for the creation of maps. Müller who described and categorized clothing, religions and rituals of the Sibirian ethnic groups is considered to be the father of ethnography. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gerhardt Friedrich Müller"

Horatio Hale ( May 3, 1817 - December 28, 1896), American ethnologist, was born in Newport, New Hampshire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Horatio Hale"

Jesse Walter Fewkes ( 1850– 1930) was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, writer and naturalist. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and initially trained as a zoologist at Harvard University. He later turned to ethnological studies of the native tribes in the American Southwest. ...more on Wikipedia about "J. Walter Fewkes"

James Cowles Prichard ( February 11, 1786 - December 23, 1848), English physician and ethnologist, was born at Ross in Herefordshire. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Cowles Prichard"

Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki ( 1761- 1815) was a Polish nobleman ( szlachcic), capitan, engineer of the Crown Army, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, and author. His colorful life led him across Europe, Asia, and North Africa, where he embroiled himself in political intrigues, flirted with secret societies, contributed to the birth of ethnology (he was one of the first to study the relationship of the Slavic peoples from a linguistic and historical point of view), and even rode the first hot air balloon in Poland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jan Potocki"

John Ferguson McLennan ( October 14, 1827 - June 16, 1881), Scottish ethnologist, was born at Inverness. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Ferguson McLennan"

John Peabody Harrington (1884-1961) was an United States linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the native peoples of California. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Peabody Harrington"

Leo Frobenius ( 29 June 1873 - 9 August 1938) was an ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography. He was born in Berlin as the son of a Prussian officer, and died in Biganzolo, Lago Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. He undertook his first expedition in 1904 to the Kasai district in Congo. Until 1918 he travelled in the western and central Sudan, and in northern and northeastern Africa. In 1920 he founded the Institute for Cultural Morphology in Munich. In 1932 he became honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt, and in 1935 director of the municipal ethnographic museum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leo Frobenius"

Mario Piacenza was an Italian mountain climber, ethnologist and explorer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mario Piacenza"

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Matthias Alexander Castrén ( December 2 1813- May 7 1853) was a Finnish ethnologist and philologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Matthias Castrén"

Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied ( September 23, 1782 - February 3, 1867) was a German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied"

Morris Edward Opler ( May 3, 1907 – 1996), American anthropologist and advocate of Japanese-American civil rights, was born in Buffalo, New York. He was the brother of Marvin Opler, an anthropologist and social psychiatrist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Morris Edward Opler"

Nicholai Nicholaevich Miklukho-Maklai (Николай Николаевич Миклухо-Маклай in Russian) ( 1846 – 1888) was a Russian ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai"

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