Otto Dempwolff

Biography

Prof. Dr. Otto Dempwolff

1871-05-25   * in Pillau, Prussia (today: Baltijsk, Russian Federation)

1938-11-27   + in Hamburg, Germany


1876--1893   Education

1888-03-05   Abitur (general qualification for university entrance in Germany) at Luisen-Gymnasium in Memel, Prussia

1888--1893   medical study in Königsberg, Marburg, Leipzig, Berlin, Tübingen

1892-03-12   doctorate in Berlin (Über einen Fall von Mediastinalsarcom)

1893-01-26   state examination in Tübingen

1893-01-31   medical licence in Stuttgart


1893--1898   Ship's doctor on South-America travels | Physician in German New Guinea

1893--1894   military service, partly as a "Unterarzt" (like: junior doctor) in München, Memel, Tilsit and Hamburg

1894--1895   ship's doctor on two South-America trips

ship name "Paraguass" | shipping company Hamburg Süd | 01.Aug.1894 - NN.Sep.1894
ship name "Paraguass" | shipping company Hamburg Süd | 20.Okt.1894 - 14.Jan.1895

1895--1897   physician at the "Neuguinea-Compagnie" in German New Guinea

1897--1898   ship's doctor on two South-America trips

ship name "Montevideo" | shipping company Hamburg Süd | 04.Nov.1897 - 06.Jan.1898
ship name "Montevideo" | shipping company Hamburg Süd | NN.Feb.1898 - 21.Mrz.1898


1898--1911   Medical officer in the "Kaiserlichen Schutztruppe" | Malaria research on behalf of Robert Koch

1898--1900   in German South-West Africa

1899-06-30   Stabsarzt

1900--1901   physician at the "Reichskolonialamt" in Berlin

1901--1903   in German New Guinea (Stephansort) à la suite for the purpose of malaria research on behalf of Robert Koch, then in Berlin at the "Preußisches Institut für Infektionskrankheiten"

1904--1905   Stabsarzt in German South-West Africa

1904-11-03   "Roter Adler-Orden vierter Klasse mit Schwertern am weißen Bande mit schwarzer Einfassung"

1905-01-31   "Roter Adler-Orden vierter Klasse mit der Königlichen Krone" (malaria research in German New Guinea)

1906--1911   in German East Africa, malaria research, retirement from military

1906--1907   Acquisition of a piece of land, "Guntabak" (Hansemann Mountains, near Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen, German New Guinea)

1910-01-27   Oberstabarzt


1911--1919   Private language studies | Medical officer in the German Army in Saarbrücken

1911--1913   lectureship at "Hamburgerische Kolonialinstitut" under Prof. Meinhof (Melanesian languages)

1913--1914   in German New Guinea on behalf of private language studies

1915--1919   medical officer in the German Army in Saarbrücken

1918-06-05   awarded the title "Hamburgischer Professor"


1919--1938  Docent at the Seminar for African and South Pacific languages in Hamburg

1920-05-10   habilitation on African and South Pacific languages

1931--1938   docent and head of the seminar for Indonesian and Pacific languages in Hamburg

1931-05-25   honorary doctorate Dr. phil.h.c. from the "Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel"

1931-06-04   appointment to "n. b. ao. Professor" (= "nicht beamteter außerordentlicher Professor" = Professor extraordinarius)