George Alexander Wilken
| Prof. Dr George Alexander Wilken | |||||||
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| Born | 1847 | ||||||
| Died | 1891 | ||||||
| Residence | University of Leyden | ||||||
| Occupation |
administrative ethnologist | ||||||
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Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
1891.06.23 proposed for election as Hon. Member at the next meeting
1891.10.27 death reported
* died before official election
Notes From Elsewhere
George Alexander Wilken (born March 13, 1847 in Menado (Minahassa) on Celebes , † August 28, 1891 in Leiden ) was a Dutch colonial official and ethnologist .
The son of Nikolaus Philipp Wilken (1813-1878), was 1869-80 worked in the Dutch-Indian services and was in 1881 head of the Institute for Indian officials. In 1884 he received his doctorate from the University of Leiden for a doctor honoris causa. In 1885 he was appointed Professor of Language, Agriculture and Ethnology of the Indian Archipelago there. His works deal especially with the marital, family and inheritance relations of the Malay peoples. He earned a reputation for exploring the Malayan tribes of the East Indian archipelago .
Publications
External Publications
About the matriarchy of the old Arabs (also German, Leipzig 1884)
Het animisme bij de volken of the Indian Archipelago (1884-85, 2 parts)
"Het Shamanisme bij de Volken van de Indian Archipelago," in Bijdragen tot de Taal, Landen en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië , xxxvi. (1887). On-line
Over de Verwantschapen het huwelijks-en pleased bij de volken van het maleic ras (1888)
Het criminal law bij de volken van het maleic ras (in the " Bijdragen tot de taal, länder folk customer van Nederlandsch-Indië ", Haag 1883)
Het pandrecht bij de volken van the Indian archipelago (Haag 1888).
Handleiding voor de vergelijkende volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië (Leiden 1893) - Digitized
