Pöch, Rudolf#
b. Ternopol, Ukraine (then Tarnopol), April 17, 1870, d. Innsbruck (Tyrol), March 4, 1921 ethnographer, anthropologist, explorer, plague doctor. From 1919 university professor in Vienna; 1901-1906 studied the chants of the Papuans (recordings in the Phonogramm Archives in Vienna); was the first to prove the existence of dwarf tribes in New Guinea; 1907-1909 studied Bushmen in South Africa. Pioneer in the field of scientific film and sound documentaries.
Works#
Die Pest, 1914; Studien an Eingeborenen aus Neusuedwales, 1915.Literature#
Almanach der Oe. Akad. d. Wiss. 71, 1921; literary estate edited by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2 series, 1927ff.; B. Stangl, Ethnologie im Ohr, 2000.