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Baum, Jiri (1900-1944)
Former curator of birds and arachnids at the National Museum, Prague,
Czechoslovakia.
Chronology
| Date |
Age |
Events |
| 1900 |
0 |
Born |
| 1931 |
31 |
Visited South Africa and
other parts of Africa. Collected mainly arachnids and birds but also
collected other taxa for other researchers at the National Museum of
Prague. |
| 1938/39 |
38/39 |
Visited South Africa and
other parts of Africa. Collected along similar lines as his last
expedition here. |
| 194? |
|
Joined the underground movement in his country. |
| 1943 |
43 |
Died in a concentration camp in Warsaw. |
Comments
Jiri Baum undertook four main expeditions to Africa (plus
some other short visits), 2 of which included South Africa.
He created a very large photographic archive (about 15000
negatives) from many parts of the world. Most of them were taken from 1928 to
1939.
The bulk of information on Jiri Baum is in the Archive of
the National Museum in Prague.
Acknowledgments
I am most grateful to Jiri Baum's son Petr for providing
me with some of the information above.
References
Text by Hamish Robertson |
