Eugen Wolf
Eugen Wolf ( born January 24, 1850 in Kirchheimbolanden, † May 10, 1912 in Munich) was a German journalist and explorer.
Life
Eugen Wolf spent the better part of his life traveling, first in Europe, then in the New World, Africa and the Far East. In 1873 he traveled to South America, then to Central Africa ( 1884-1885 ), in the United States (1887 ), East Africa ( 1889-1890 ), South Africa ( 1891-1892 ) and Madagascar (1895 ). From August 1896 to June 1898, he was in China, Japan and Siberia. In 1909 he made a trip to Oceania.
The polyglot Wolf met in Germany and abroad with politicians, businessmen and diplomats to promote the global political role of the newly founded German Empire. He set the international trade as a key element for the development of Germany as a world power dar.
As a nationalist, he was afraid that the growing presence of Russians, Americans and Japanese limit the opportunities for German expansion. He put his thoughts Otto von Bismarck during several meetings with him and is repeated it in his travelogue My hikes. I: In the interior of China, which was published in 1901. In China, he visited foreign concessions and made a plan for German expansion. This he struck at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin after his return before.
Work
Wolf was a prolific writer, he published his travel reports in several books and in a series of newspaper articles that first appeared in the Berliner Tageblatt. He used his writings to promote international relations politically and economically. He combined his extensive collection activities to an international agenda with which he donated ethnographic collections for Bavarian and Prussian museums to give young Germans an overview of the different cultures.
- My hikes: In the interior of China. In 1901.
- From princes Bismarck and his house. Diaries of Eugene Wolf, with three portraits and a letter in Fakelmille. In 1904.
The Chukchi Collection
The Chukchi collection was officially donated to the National Museum of Ethnology on 14 January 1899.
The Siberian collection shows samples from different regions of Siberia, who greeted part of Chukchi and Eskimos of the Chukchi Peninsula in northeastern Siberia. Although the valuable originals in the collection are unknown (it is not certain whether the collection of Eugene Wolf itself dates ), they are of great importance because it systematically organizes all aspects of the life of reindeer herders in the tundra and only a small portion of the sample this period is in museums. The Chukchi collection shows clothing the Chukchi for adults and children. There are also children's toys ( leather balls, drums ), two musical instruments ( a handmade violin and a balalaika ). Important products are lighter, fire boards, ritual drums and gloves for the preparation of the dead.