Augustin Kraemer
Augustin Friedrich Kraemer or Krämer (27 August 1865 – 11 November 1941) was a German naturalist and ethnographer. Augustin Kraemer was a Navy surgeon who worked in the Polynesia in 1893–95 and 1897–99.
He wrote the Palau sections of Georg Thilenius five-volume ethnographic documentation of the Hamburg Südsee Expedition, which sailed through Micronesia to record the island peoples and their way of life during the early 1900s (Palau, Ergebnissse der Südsee-Expedition, herausgegeben von Dr G. Thilenius 1926, Hamburg). His second voyage is described in Hawaii, Ostmikronesien und Samoa. Meine zweite Südseereise (1897–1899) zum Studium der Atolle und ihrer Bewohner published in Stuttgart by Strecker & Schröder, 1906.
Photograph of Traditional house and canoe taken in Nauru by Kraemer
Hawaii, Ostmikronesien und Samoa. Meine zweite Südseereise
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Further reading
- Mönter, Sven: Dr. Augustin Krämer: A German Ethnologist in the Pacific. University of Auckland, thesis 2010
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