biography
| name: |
Grau Bassas, Víctor
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pronunciation:
[grow basas]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1847–1918)
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| biography:
| Pre-historian, anthropological physicist, and ethnographer, born in Barcelona, NE Spain. A doctor by profession, he founded El Museo Canario in Las Palmas and was its first curator. In 1889 he went to Argentina, where he worked at the Museo de la Plata and resumed his work as a doctor. In close collaboration with Chil and Naranjo, he took an active part in the exploration and research of the island of Gran Canaria, which formed the nucleus of the chief anthropology and prehistory collections of the Museo Canario. Involved in an accusation of theft following the sinking of a French ship in which he had served as a doctor, he was declared a fugitive from justice, which forced him to go into hiding on the island. This enabled him to intensify his ethnographic and prehistoric investigations, of which his Uses and customs of the rural population of Gran Canaria and his Journeys of exploration to various places and localities in Gran Canaria are outstanding examples. |
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