BASTIAN, ADOLF (1826 )

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BASTIAN, ADOLF (1826 ) , German ethnologist, : was born at Bremen on the 26th of June 1826. He was educated as a physician, but from his early years devoted himself to travel. Proceeding to Australia in 1851 as surgeon on a vessel, he had visited almost every part of the world before his return in 1859. In 1861 he made an expedition to the Far

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

which lasted five years. Upon his return he commenced the publication of his great

work

WORK

on The Peoples of Eastern Asia, an immense

store

STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire,
Late
- LATE
Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions,
supply
- SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)
, from the
late
- LATE
use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of facts owing little to arrangement or style. He settled in Berlin, where he was made professor of ethnology at theuniversity and keeper of the ethnological museum. He succeeded R. Virchow as president of the Berlin Anthropological Society, and to him was largely due the formation in 1878 of the German Africa Society of Berlin, which did much to encourage German colonization in Africa. Later he undertook further scientific travels in Africa, South America and India. The results of these explorations were made public in a long

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of separate publications comprising several on Buddhism,, and on the psycho-logical problems presented by native superstitions. Bastian also edited the Zeitschrift fur Ethuologie from 1869, in conjunction with Virchow and Robert von Hartmann. On his seventieth birthday, 1896 (during which year he started on an expedition to Malaysia), he was presented with a volume of essays composed by the most distinguished ethnologists in celebration of the event and dedicated to him. Among his more important works may be mentioned:Der Mensch in der Geschichte (

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 186o); Die Volker des ostlichen Asien (Jena, 1866-1871); Ethnologische Forschungen (

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 18711873); Die Kulturldnder des

alien

ALIEN (Lat. alienus)

Amerika (Berlin, 1878); Der Buddhismus in seiner Psychologie (Berlin, 1881); Indonesien (Leipzig, 1884); Der. Fetisch an der Kiiste Guineas (Berlin, 1885); Die mikronesischen Kolonien (1899--1900) ; Die wechselnden Phasen im geschichtlichen Sehkreis and ihre Ruckwirkung auf die Volkerkunde (Ig04

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