Carl Strehlow

Carl Friedrich Theodor Strehlow ( born December 23, 1871 in Fredersdorf, County Angermuende, Uckermark, Brandenburg, † October 20, 1922 in Horseshoe Bend, Northern Territory, Australia ) was a German missionary and ethnologist in Australia. He led from 1894 to 1922, the Finke River Mission at Hermannsburg ( Northern Territory ).

Biography

He was the son of Karl Ludwig Ferdinand Strehlow and Friederike Wilhelmine Augustine Schneider and married on September 25, 1895 in Point Pass ( South Australia ), the German Frieda Keysser ( born August 31, 1875 in Geroldsgrün, Upper Franconia, Bavaria).

Strehlow was in the seminary for the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Neuendettelsau, Ansbach, trained, graduated in 1891 and was ordained the following year.

Strehlow learned and documented in Australia, the languages ​​of the Aranda and Luritja Aboriginal and published a seven -volume work on their culture in collaboration with Moritz Freiherr von Leonhard. His son, Theodore George Henry Strehlow, continued his work.

His main work, especially his record of the myths and totemic ideas was ( mythology La primitive ) by Lucien Lévy -Bruhl influence and Elias Canetti ( Crowds and Power ).

Honors

By Carl Strehlow Memorial Hospital in Hermannsburg and the Strehlow Research Centre in Alice Springs its name in Australia is held in memory.