Hugo Bernatzik

Taxon named in his honor The southeast Asian fish Opsarius bernatziki (Koumans, 1937) was named after him.

Works Zwischen weissem Nil und Belgisch–Kongo. L. W. Seidel & Sohn, Vienna 1929. Gari–Gari, The Call of the African Wilderness. London: Constable & Co. 1936. New York: H. Holt & Co. 1936 (Vienna: L. W. Seidel & Sohn 1930). Albanien. Das Land der Schkipetaren. 204 photos, L. W. Wien: Seidel & Sohn 1930. The Dark Continent, Afrika. London: "The Studio" Ltd. 1931. New York: B. Westermann 1931, (Berlin: Atlantis 1930). Geheimnisvolle Inseln Tropenafrikas. Das Reich der Bidyogo auf den Bissagos Inseln, Wasmuth, Berlin–Zürich 1933 Äthiopen des Westens. Portugiesisch Guinea, 2 vols., 378 photos, contribution by Bernhard Struck, L. W. Seidel & Sohn, Wien 1933. Südsee. Travels in the South Sea, London: Constable & Co. 1935. New York: H. Holt & Co. 1935 (Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut 1934). Lapland, Overland with the Nomad Lapps, London: Constabel & Co. 1938. New York: R. M. McBride & Co. 1938 (Wien: L. W. Seidel & Sohn 1935). Owa Raha, Wien–Leipzig–Olten: Bernina Verlag 1936. The Spirits of the Yellow Leaves, with collaboration of Emmy Bernatzik. London: R. Hale 1956. (München: Bertelsmann 1938). Akha and Miao, Problems of Applied Ethnography in Farther India, 763 pp., New Haven: Human Relation Area Files 1970. (2 vols., 568 pp., 108…Citește mai mult

Death and legacy Bernatzik died in 1953 after many years of a tropical disease at the age of 56 years. He left important photographic work, accessible in Vienna at the Photographic Institute Bonartes (bonartes.org), as well as numerous publications translated into many languages and re-edited until the 1960s. The following list of main works are itemized according to the date of their first edition and their English edition.

Hugo Adolf Bernatzik (26 March 1897 – 9 March 1953, born and died in the city of Vienna) was an Austrian anthropologist and photographer. Bernatzik was the founder of the concept of alternative anthropology.

Early life Hugo Adolf Bernatzik was a son of the Professor of Public Law at the University of Vienna and member of the House of Peers, Edmund Bernatzik (1854–1919). After school in 1915, he volunteered to join the Austro–Hungarian Army and was deployed among other places in Albania.

Career In 1920, he abandoned his medical studies for financial reasons and became a businessman. After the early death of his first wife Margarete Ast (1904–1924), he embarked on extensive travels and expeditions taking photographs, which became his profession and passion: Spain and north–west Africa in 1924; Egypt and Somalia in 1925; Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1927; Romania and Albania between 1926 and 1930; Portuguese Guinea in 1930–1931 (with Bernhard Struck, Museum of Ethnology, Dresden); British Solomon Islands, British New Guinea, as well as Bali in Indonesia in 1932–1933; Swedish Lapland in 1934; Burma, Thailand and French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) in 1936–1937; and, French–Morocco in 1949–1950. Bernatzik financed his research and living expenses as a travel writer and freelance scientist, by publishing photo coverages, giving public slide lectures and purchasing collections for ethnological museums in Germany and Switzerland. His journalistic activity and his exceptional photographs of foreign people made him quite prominent. He prepared a worldwide photo archive of remote tribal people considered as threatened. With regard to colonial policies, Bernatzik argued that colonial administrators should take the customs, way of life and the tribal environment into account. In 1927, he married Emmy Winkler (1904–1977), a psychology student in Vienna,…Citește mai mult

Bibliography Hermann Mückler: Ethnologe, Photograph, Publizist – Ein Österreichischer in Melanesien: Hugo A. Bernatzik. In: Hermann Mückler (Hrsg.): Österreicher im Pazifik. Novara – Mitteilungen der österreichisch–südpazifischen Gesellschaft (OSPG). Bd 2. Vienna 1999, pp. 185–196. ISBN 3-9500765-1-4 Doris Byer: Der Fall Hugo A.Bernatzik. Ein Leben zwischen Ethnologie und Öffentlichkeit 1897–1953. Böhlau, Köln Weimar 1999. ISBN 3-412-12698-5 Bernatzik: Afrika. South Pacific. Southeast Asia, 3 vols., photographs by Hugo A. Bernatzik, Essays by Kevin Conru, Klaus–Jochen Krüger, Margarete Loke, Christina Angela Thomas, Alison Nordström, Jacques Ivanoff. imago mundi, 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2003, ISBN 88-7439-044-0 Florian Stifel: Who was Hugo A. Bernatzik? (1897–1953). In: Tribal, The Magazine of Tribal Art 38, 2005. pp. 108–111 Jacques Ivanoff: Introduction and Analysis of the Moken Oral Corpus, in: Moken and Semang, 1936–2004 Persistence and Change, Hugo A. Bernatzik. White Lotus, Bangkok 2005. pp. XV– XLV. ISBN 974-4800-82-8 Jørgen Rischel: Introduction, linguistic analysis of the Mlabri, in: The Spirits of the Yellow Leaves, Hugo Adolf Bernatzik. White Lotus, Bangkok 2005, pp. XI–XXXVIII, ISBN 974-4800-71-2 Doris Byer, Christian Reder (eds. and co–authors), Drawing as Universal Language. Graphic Works of Southeast Asia and Melanesia, Hugo A. Bernatzik Collection 1932–1937. Contributions by Manfred Fassler, Jacques Ivanoff, Elisabeth von Samsonow. Springer…Citește mai mult