Record ID:
35872385 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • no2002110974
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18811027
  • Kent Town (S.A.)
Death:
  • 19330604
  • Kent Town (S.A.)
Associated with:
  • Australia South Australia
Lived/located in:
  • Adelaide (S.A.)
Fields of activity:
  • Geology Anthropology Medicine Aboriginal Australians
Occupations:
  • Geologists Anthropologists Physicians Explorers
Notes:
  • The Australian aboriginal, 1925 t.p. (Herbert Basedow)
  • LC in OCLC, 12/7/2002 (hdg: Basedow, Herbert, 1881-1933)
  • Wikipedia 1 December 2021: (Herbert Basedow (27 October 1881 – 4 June 1933) was an Australian anthropologist, geologist, politician, explorer and medical practitioner. He was born in Kent Town, South Australia. He studied at the University of Adelaide and in Europe. During his working life, Basedow took part in many major geological, exploratory and medical relief expeditions to central and northern Australia. On these expeditions, he took photographs and collected geological and natural history specimens and Aboriginal artefacts. Basedow was one of the few people of his time involved in recording the traditional life of Aboriginal Australians.He also actively lobbied government for better treatment of Aboriginal people and campaigned for an improvement in Aboriginal health. He was elected to the South Australian parliament in 1927. During his career, Basedow published widely on anthropology, geology and natural history. He also published detailed accounts of some of his expeditions and two major anthropological works on Aboriginal Australians. [etc.] He died in Kent Town.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Basedow
Local system number:
  • abv01635056
  • 000000877555
  • (AuCNL)842714
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX10657
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda ANL DNLM
Authentication code:
  • anuc