Herbert Basedow

Herbert Basedow ( born October 27, 1881 in Kent Town, South Australia, † June 4, 1933 in Kent Town) was an Australian anthropologist, geologist, politicians, doctors and explorers.

Graves, was born as the youngest son of the German teacher Martin Peter Friedrich Basedow, who was education minister in the government of William Morgan. Herbert Basedow went to a high school in Hanover and Prince Alfred College for School, a school for mining, and then to the University of Adelaide. He also studied in Heidelberg, Göttingen, Breslau, and in Zurich and completed his studies with a doctorate.

Graves got a job in the geological department of South Australia, where he became assistant to the government geologist Henry Yorke Lyell Brown. He accompanied and led several expeditions and developed an interest in Aboriginal people with whom he lived for some time. In 1903 he was a member of the expedition north-west of Australia by Lawrence Wells. In 1909 he left the geological department, and in 1911 took over the position of Chief Protector of Aborigines, in the Northern Territory, which he gave up disillusioned after a short time. In 1925 he published The Australian Aboriginal, a band with 400 pages and lots of pictures.

1927 Herbert Basedow applied for a seat in the South Australian House of Assembly (House of Representatives ) for the Barossa Council as an independent candidate. He received the most votes and held the seat he held until 1930. In April 1933 he was re-elected. He died on 1933 of deep vein thrombosis in Kent Town.

Graves was married to Olive Nell, daughter of AC Noyes, who survived him. They had no children. His book Knights of the Boomerang, Episodes from a Life Spent Among the Native Tribes of Australia was published posthumously in 1935. Graves was also the author of several articles on the anthropology and geology.