Theodor Bartus

Theodor Bartus ( born January 30, 1858 in Lassan, † January 28, 1941 in Berlin) was a German sailor, museum technicians and conservators.

Life

Theodor Bartus, son of a master weaver, his nautical career began on the sailing ship of his uncle. In Australia, he made ​​his helmsman exam and became captain. He had acquired many years of experience in sailing ships and the requisite hand skills and at times lived as a squatter in Australia.

During a visit to Germany his Australian bank went bankrupt, so that he suddenly became destitute. He had to find a job and worked from 1888 as a museum technician at the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin- Dahlem, where he was to rig up, among other ships. Between 1902 and 1914 he was a technical companion on all four Turfanexpeditionen under the direction of Albert Green Wedel and Albert von Le Coq. Bartus where he developed a method, murals and inscriptions largely undamaged separate from cave and rock walls and ruins, which were then transported to Germany. Other expeditions led Theodor Bartus to Mesopotamia and India. Until his death he was employed at the Museum of Ethnology to the preparation and preservation of the finds brought.