| Code | DS/UK/803 |
| Dates | 04/10/1868-28/12/1937 |
| Person Name | Thilenius; Georg Christian (04/10/1868-28/12/1937); Prof. Dr. med. |
| Surname | Thilenius |
| Forenames | Georg Christian |
| Title | Prof. Dr. med. |
| Activity | Professor of Anthropology and Ethnology at the University of Breslau (since 1900); First Director of the Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg (1904-1935); played an important role at the Kolonialinstitut in Hamburg.. |
| History | Studied medicine at the universities of Bonn and Berlin; made expeditions to Tunisia and in the South Pacific (after 1896). |
| Source | Gustav Schiefler, Eine Hamburgische Kulturgeschichte 1890-1920. Beobachtungen eines Zeitgenossen, Hamburg: Verlag Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte, 1985, p. 264, 363f, 374, 400, 459, 559; Becker, Johanna, Die Gründung des Deutschen Kolonialinstituts in Hamburg. Zur Vorgeschichte der Hamburgischen Universität, Hamburg 2005, p.45. |
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