!!!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.



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