Sten Bergman ( Swede. Sten Bergman ; October 20, 1895 - February 19, 1975) - a Swedish zoologist, traveler, naturalist, ethnographer, photographer and teacher who traveled and conducted research in Korea (1935-1936), Kamchatka (1920-1923) Papua New Guinea (1948-1950) and other regions.
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Biography
Stan Bergman was born in Ranseter to the family of Johan Bergman, translator and professor of classical philology, and Cherstin Henrikson, a teacher. When he was 13 years old, the family moved to Brüning, a suburb of Stockholm. In 1914, Bergman began to study zoology, botany, and pedagogy at the University of Stockholm. He married a girl named Linda in 1920, and together they went on a scientific expedition to the Far East. Bergman received his Ph.D. two years after returning from his first expedition to Kamchatka, in 1925 [2] .
Travel
Bergman began his scientific career in Kamchatka (1920-1923) in the RSFSR. He lost most of the equipment collected before this trip at the beginning of the journey, when the ship carrying him sank. During this expedition, he found samples of the fur of an unusual bear, later named after his name (although the existence of this bear has not been proven so far). From 1925 to 1929, he returned several times to Sweden to transfer the collections of birds he collected to the National Museum of Natural History of Sweden. Then he traveled to the Kuril Islands, which at that time belonged to Japan (1929-1930). Between 1936 and 1937 he visited Korea, where he again gathered various wildlife specimens for various museums in Sweden. He described his journey to Korea in detail in a documentary book written in 1938. During World War II, he was forced to interrupt his travels and was engaged in writing books and giving lectures. After the war, Bergman returned to his travels in the Far East. He made three long trips to modern Papua New Guinea, which at that time was British possession (1948-1950, 1952-1953 and 1956-1959). In these expeditions, in addition to collecting rich collections of stuffed animals in the jungle, Bergman also seriously studied local traditions, and in his next book he described in detail cannibalism practiced among local tribes not only for ritual purposes. After a car accident in 1964, he was seriously injured and was forced to stop his travels.
Notes
- ↑ Nationalencyklopedin - 1999.
- ↑ Sten Bergman, a photographic record of his expeditions and adventures in the far east (link unavailable) . Date of treatment March 22, 2014. Archived March 22, 2014.
Literature
- Through Kamchatka by Dog-Sled and Skis by Sten Bergman (Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd., 1927), ISBN 978-1-135-48149-0 .
- Sport and exploration in the far east by Sten Bergman (Methuen & Co. 1933)
- In Korean Wilds And Villages by Sten Bergman (1938), Translated by F. Whyte.
- My Father Is A Cannibal by Sten Bergman (Robert Hale, 1961)