Prof. Dr. Georg Boehm

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Georg Böhm is a geologist and a paleontologist, born December 21, 1854 in Frankfurt am Main and died March 18, 1913 in Freiburg im Breisgau. He is the son of Simon and Rosalie born Villert. He studied in Strasbourg, Berlin and Göttingen. He specializes in the study of bivalves, including the Mesozoic fossil fauna of the Caribbean and New Zealand. - Edit

Ancestral figures of the Moluccas from the Georg Boehm Collection 01.10.2008 - 31.10.2008 Also in October, the Augustiner Museum, the eye-catching showcase the ethnological collections of the Museum Adelhauser available. The focus this time 16 carved wooden ancestor figures, made in the 19th century by residents of several small islands in the southern Moluccas: Wetar, Romang, Leti, Moa and Damar. Here, as in other regions of Indonesia ancestor worship plays an important role. The stylized stool figures are aids in communication with the dead, it was believed that the "shadow" of the deceased would, for some time they "occupy" and go later in the village of the deceased. The properties were acquired by Prof. Dr. Georg Boehm occasion of his geological research trip around the world in the years 1900 and 1901. The universal interested Georg Boehm (1854 - 1913) taught from 1886 Geology and Paleontology in Freiburg. In the years 1903-1905 he was about 300 ethnographic objects, with emphasis on the Indonesian area, predominantly on permanent loan to the former Museum of Natural History and Ethnology. In 1992 they were donated to the museum. The wife of Georg Boehm Ella and his daughter Dr. Gerda E. Boehm had been murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. Two "stumbling blocks" of the artist Gunter Demnig front of the former home of the Boehm family in the SchwaighofstraíŸe bear witness to the fate of a once respected Jewish family.