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Georg Buschan
1863–1942
A German physician who became a noted ethnologist and ethnographer, he wrote wide-ranging works on peoples, customs, and early cultural history. His books helped bring anthropology to a broader reading public in the early 20th century.
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About the author
Born in Frankfurt (Oder) on April 14, 1863, Georg Buschan was a German physician who also built a significant career as an ethnologist, anthropologist, and ethnographer. He died in Stettin on November 6, 1942.
Buschan is especially remembered for large survey works that aimed to explain human societies and traditions to general readers as well as specialists. Sources credit him with major titles including Illustrierte Völkerkunde and Die Sitten der Völker, and records of his publications also show earlier medical and scientific writing alongside studies of prehistory and culture.
He was active not only as an author but as an editor and organizer in his field. Contemporary reference sources describe him as the founder and editor of Centralblatt für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, a co-editor of Ethnologischer Anzeiger, and at times chairman of the Gesellschaft für Völker- und Erdkunde.