Ludwig Cohn
Ludwig Cohn (* 1873, † 1935) was a German zoologist and explorer in New Guinea.
Life and work
Ludwig Cohn was since 1904 Zoological Assistant at the " Municipal Museum of natural history, ethnology and commercial customer " (now the Overseas Museum ) in Bremen, from 1920 head of the Department of Natural History. On behalf of the museum, he undertook two research and collecting trips to New Guinea.
On his first South Seas voyage 1908/ 09 he attended the Solomon Islands. Together with the captain and outstanding South Seas connoisseur Karl Nauer. researched Cohn on the island of Buka and the place Toboroi on the island of Bougainville, as well as on the island Tijob. Cohn and Nauer collected hundreds of objects, including whole families, such as a bachelor house Tijob and a family home from Toboroi that were central display objects at the opening of the South Seas exhibition of the museum in 1911.
The second trip took Cohn 1912/13, the Admiralty Islands. Again, he collected many zoological and ethnological objects, such as several series of arts and crafts carving.
A large part of the collection Cohn in Überseemuseum was lost during the Second World War.