John Stanislaw Kubary

Johann Stanislaus Kubary ( born November 13, 1846 in Warsaw, † October 9, 1896 at Ponape ) is known, even when Jan Kubary, was a Polish -born ethnographer and biologist who was mainly active in the Caroline Islands.

  • 2.1 Notes and references

Journey

Johann Stanislaus Kubary was born the son of a Berliner Berta Ischerow and a Hungarian father, Stanislaw († 1852). He had a Polish stepfather. From 1863 he worked in the Austrian civil administration in Krakow. As a young man the medical student was in the Polish resistance movement against the Russian suzerainty, committed. Therefore, he fled in 1866 to relatives in Berlin.

From the Hamburg trading company J. C. He received Godeffroy & Sohn, a 5- year contract to collect copies for their museum. For the first time in 1869, he traveled to the Pacific, where he first stayed six months mostly in Apia (Samoa). There, the company had its headquarters Pacific. He learned the local language and photography. On trips to Fiji and Tonga, his interest in ornithology was awakened. Later he made the Caroline Islands to his main area of ​​research.

In 1870 he attended the Ellice, Gilbert and Marshall Islands. He presented a grammar and a dictionary of the dialects of the Ebon Islands together. He spent the next four years traveling to Yap, Pohnpei, Palau and Melanesia. In 1873, the four largest of about 100 boxes of ethnographic art, which he had sent to his clients, down with the ship Alfred. The following year he traveled to Germany and Warsaw.

After his contract extension with J. C. Godeffroy & Sohn for five more years, he traveled the end of 1874 with a variety of equipment again in the Pacific. During a 10-day stay in Sydney, Australia, he was there naturalized early 1875. He then settled on Ponape. After the cessation of payment of his client in December 1879 Kubarys received no salary.

In 1882, he briefly worked in Japan at the museums of Yokohama and Tokyo. He could continue his research on Ponape By supporting the Berlin Ethnographic Association and the University of Leiden. Renewed lack of money forced him to the warships Iltis and albatross to work as an interpreter.

In 1885 he took over as manager the plantation Matupit. In Constantinople Harbour, he was hired in 1886 by the New Guinea 's Company as a station ( until 1891 or 93). During this time he continued to collect, now even butterflies. He supported the imperial Commissioner Frederick Rose in the construction of the stations Erima and Gorima. On 8 July 1887, he was made the registrar. In November of the same year he participated in an expedition in the Astrolabe level. His contract was renewed in 1888 and Kubray received the appointment as stationmaster of Hatzfeldthaven. When he had a village can burn down, he was reported by a missionary when Governor George Schmiele.

In Germany he found no new donors for further research. He retired in 1893 on his ravaged by the uprisings against the Spaniards in 1890 plantation Mpomp on Ponape and devoted himself whose reconstruction.

The body Kubarys who was like many Europeans in the Pacific alcoholics was found on October 9, 1896 under a tree his plantation. He wrists had opened. On 2 September 1905, a 2.5 -meter high monument was unveiled to him in Ponape.

Family

Married Kubary was with a woman of Ponape (born Yelliot ), with whom he had a daughter born around 1881. The woman was involved with her second husband at the insurgency of Ponape, which was put down on 17 February 1911. But how many were banished them to Palau, her husband was executed.

Merits

Kubary discovered and described a number of insects and birds:

  • Samoa cesspool chicken, 1869: Gallinula pacifica on Savaii, now extinct

In the name of honored he is by:

  • Guamkrähe: Corvus kubaryi
  • Caroline Taube: Gallicolumba kubaryi
  • Fuchs Fächerschwanz Rhipidura kubaryi

Mount Kubari (5 ° 40 '0 "S, 145 ° 49' 0" E ) in New Guinea is named after him.

Art, literature and sources

  • Obituary (PDF file, 1.40 MB ) from J.D.E. Schmeltz, pages 132-136 in International Archives of Ethnography, Volume X. 1897
  • Bibliography: L. Paszkowski; John Stanislaw Kubary. Naturalist and ethnographer of the Pacific Islands. In: Australian Zoologist 16, 1971, part 2, ISSN 0067-2238, pp. 43-70.
  • Ethnographic contributions to the knowledge of the Caroline Islands archipelago, iA with 55 boards, Publ the Directorate of the Royal. Ethnological Museum of Berlin. In coop by J. D. E. Schmeltz. Publisher of PWM Trap (Commission: CF Winter'sche Verlagshandlung in Leipzig), Leiden, 306 pages, 1895
  • The tattooing in Micronesia, specially in the Carolines, or the year, [ca 1890 ], 26 pp.
  • The inhabitants of the Mortlock Islands ( Carolines; northern Great Ocean ), Geographical Society ( Hamburg), 76 pages, Hamburg, 1878 ( Reprinted from the Separately - Mittheilungen the Geographical Society in Hamburg from 1878 to 1879 ).
  • Nicholas Mikoletzky: Kubary, Johann Stanislaus. In: New German Biography ( NDB ). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194- X, pp. 154-156 ( digitized ).
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