Gillen, Francis James, 1856-1912
- Summary
- Francis James Gillen, also known as Frank Gillen and F. J. Gillen, was an early Australian anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his work with W. Baldwin Spencer, including their seminal work The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899). They both worked in central Australia, where Gillen was employed as a telegraph station master, with the Arrernte people and other Indigenous Australians. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][3][4][5]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1856 [2]
- 1855-10-28 [4]
- Birth Place
- Little Para (Australie) [3]
- Little Para [4]
- Died
- 1912 [2]
- 1912-06-05 [4]
- Death Place
- Woodville (Australie) [3]
- Woodville [4]
- Country
- Australia [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [4]
- Profession
- Anthropologe [2]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [4]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [4]
- British Museum person-institution thesaurus
- Entry [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
- 5. Library of Congress
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