Carl Friedrich Strehlow (23 December 1871 – 20 October 1922) was a German

Germany

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 Lutheran

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 missionary

Missionary

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 in outback Australia

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 who headed the Finke River Mission in Hermannsburg, Northern Territory

Hermannsburg, Northern Territory

Hermannsburg is an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory of Australia, 131 km southwest of Alice Springs. It is known in the local Western Arrernte language as Ntaria....

 from 1894-1922. He learnt and documented the languages of the Arrernte

Arrernte people

The Arrernte people , known in English as the Aranda or Arunta, are those Indigenous Australians who are the original custodians of Arrernte lands in the central area of Australia around Mparntwe or Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. The Arrernte tribe has lived there for more than 20,000 years...

 and Luritja

Luritja

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 people, and published together with Moritz von Leonhardi

Moritz von Leonhardi

Moritz Freiherr von Leonhardi was a German anthropologist.-Life and work:Leonhardi was the son of the Minister Plenipotentiary Ludwig Freiherr von Leonhardi and Luise, née Bennigsen. He grew up in Karben and Darmstadt. He studied law in Heidelberg until he had to cancel due to sickness. Since...

 a seven-volume work on their culture. His son, Ted Strehlow

Ted Strehlow

Theodor George Henry Strehlow was an anthropologist who studied the Arrernte Australian Aborigines in Central Australia. He was considered a member of the Arrernte people, by dint of his ritual adoption by the tribe...

, continued this work.

Carl Strehlow was educated at a seminary in Neuendettelsau, Ansbach

Ansbach (district)

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, graduating in 1891 and becoming ordained

Ordination

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 the following year.
He is commemorated by the Carl Strehlow Memorial Hospital at Hermannsburg and the Strehlow Research Centre in Alice Springs.

Works

• Carl Strehlow: Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien, Ed. Städtisches Völkerkunde-Museum Frankfurt am Main and Moritz Freiherr v. Leonhardi, Vol. 1-5, Frankfurt 1907-1920