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ADOLF BASTIAN (1826– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 500 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BASTIAN (1826– )  , See also:German ethnologist, : was See also:born at See also:Bremen on the 26th of See also:June 1826 . He was educated as a physician, but from his See also:early years devoted himself to travel . Proceeding to See also:Australia in 1851 as surgeon on a See also:vessel, he had visited almost every See also:part of the See also:world before his return in 1859 . In 1861 he made an expedition to the Far See also:East which lasted five years . Upon his return he commenced the publication of his See also:great See also:work on The Peoples of Eastern See also:Asia, an immense See also:store-See also:house of facts owing little to arrangement or See also:style . He settled in See also:Berlin, where he was made See also:professor of See also:ethnology at theuniversity and keeper of the ethnological museum . He succeeded R . See also:Virchow as See also:president of the Berlin Anthropological Society, and to him was largely due the formation in 1878 of the German See also:Africa Society of Berlin, which did much to encourage German colonization in Africa . Later he undertook further scientific travels in Africa, See also:South See also:America and See also:India . The results of these explorations were made public in a See also:long See also:series of See also:separate publications comprising several on See also:Buddhism,, and on the psycho-logical problems presented by native superstitions . See also:Bastian also edited the Zeitschrift See also:fur Ethuologie from 1869, in See also:conjunction with Virchow and See also:Robert von See also:Hartmann . On his seventieth birthday, 1896 (during which See also:year he started on an expedition to Malaysia), he was presented with a See also:volume of essays composed by the most distinguished ethnologists in celebration of the event and dedicated to him .

Among his more important See also:

works may be mentioned:—Der Mensch in der Geschichte (See also:Leipzig, 186o); See also:Die Volker See also:des ostlichen Asien (See also:Jena, 1866-1871); Ethnologische Forschungen (Leipzig, 1871–1873); Die Kulturldnder des See also:alien Amerika (Berlin, 1878); Der Buddhismus in seiner Psychologie (Berlin, 1881); Indonesien (Leipzig, 1884); Der .

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