Felix Speiser

Prof. Dr Felix Speiser
Born	1880
Died	1949
Residence	St Alban, Vorstadt 108, Basle, Switzerland
Occupation	ethnologist museum work
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow Hon. Fellow from 1932 left 1949 deceased elected_AI 1926.04.27 1932.01.26 1946

Notes

House Notes

1926.03.16 nominated; proposed by C.B. Humphries, seconded by A.C. Haddon 15 Mar. 1926
1930.11.25 The following were nominated as Hon. Fellows: Mr George Heye, Dr Linblom, Dr Clark Wistler, Dr Gunnar Landtman, Dr Tompa, Dr Speiser
1931.12.15 The following were nominated as Hon. Fellows: Dr Ferenc Tompa, Dr C. Wissler, Dr P.H. Buck, Dr Bosch Gimpera, Prof. C.M. Furst, Dr Felix F. Outes, Dr Speiser and Prof. Menghin.

check 1946 had that he was made Hon. Fellow then but 1935 list has him from 1932 - the war maybe?
1949.10.11 death noted

Notes From Elsewhere

Felix Speiser (born October 10, 1880 in Basel , Switzerland, September 19, 1949 ) was a Swiss ethnologist ; Speiser studied and promoted chemistry at the University of Basel . Later he also promoted in the field of ethnology in Berlin and then became a professor in Basel, where he was appointed director of the Museum of Ethnology.
After attending the school in Basel, Speiser Chemie studied in Neuchâtel, Göttingen and Basel. As an employee of Geigy, he traveled to America. An earlier interest in ethnology induced him to devote himself entirely to this science, and in 1906 he conducted a first study among the Hopi Indians of North America. 1907-1908 followed the study of the ethnology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and at the Royal Museum of Ethnology Berlin under Felix von Luschan . After he had promoted ethnology in 1914, he was a professor at the University of Basel from 1917 onwards.
Felix Speiser undertook several major research trips: from 1910-1912 to Vanuatu ( New Hebrides ) and 1924 to the north- east of Brazil to the Aparai -Indians (present states of Amapá and Pará ). [1] In 1929-1930 he traveled again to the Pacific to the islands of Bougainville and New Britain and to the Sepik valley on New Guinea . [2] [3]
Speiser was director of the Museum of Ethnic Studies Basel , the Museum of Cultures , from 1942 to 1949.

Publications

External Publications

Ethnographic materials from the New Hebrides and the Banks Islands , Kreidel Verlag, Berlin, 1923. Crawford House, Bathurst NSW 1991, ISBN 1-86333-021-6 , p. 204-209 and plates 57-60, reprints 1996 and 1998. Restricted preview in Google booksearch)
South Sea, jungle, cannibals: travel impressions from the New Hebrides , Voigländer Verlag, Leipzig 1913.
Introduction to the Museum für Völkerkunde Basel , Museum für Völkerkunde and Swiss Museum of Folklore, Basel 1939.
Two years with the Natives in the Western Pacific . Mills & Boon, London, 1913.