BASTIAN, hiis'te-an, ADOLF (1826—). A German traveler and anthropologist. He was born at Bremen, June 26, 1826, and was edu cated as a physician, studying at Berlin. Heidel berg, Prague, Jena, and Wiirzburg. His author ity as an anthropologist rests upon an immense storehouse of facts, gathered during a series of extensive journeys hi Asia, Africa. Australia, and America. The first of these was begun in 1551, when he went to Australia as the surgeon of a sailing vessel. He returned to Germany in 1859, after having passed from Australia to South America and the West Indies, and thence back again across the Pacific through China, India, Egypt, Cape Colony, the West Coast of -Africa, and Congo. From 1861 to 1865 he was again absent on a prolonged journey through Farther India, Japan, and China. In subsequent voyages he revisited Africa and South America. and made extensive explorations in such widely scattered lands as Persia, New Zealand. Yucatan, and the Caucasus. In 189G the indefatigable traveler, at the age of 70, started out once more upon a voyage through the Malay Archipelago. In 1566 Bastian became docent at the University of Berlin, and subse quently was made professor of ethnology. In 1869, with Virchow and R. Hartmann, he became editor of the Zeitsehrift fiir Ethnologic, the organ of the Berlin Anthropological and Ethno logical Society, of which he was one of the founders. He became in 1586 director of the
new Museum ftir V61kerkunde. In 1901 he was editor of the Ethnopraphisches Notizblatt, pub lished in Berlin. Bastian is a prolific writer, and since 1859 has published nearly 60 works, comprising more than SO volumes, dealing with various subjects in anthropology. Within that province his range is extremely wide, his works embracing both ethnographic studies in the nar row sense, as well as philosophic investigations in race and human psychology. A partial list of his works may serve to indicate the broad sweep of his acquirements in anthropology: Der Menseh in der Gcsehichte (3 vols., 1860) ; Das Bestiindige in den ilenschenrassen (1868); Bei trage zur rergleichenden Psyehologie (1868) ; Ethnographische Forsehangen (2 vols., 1871-73) ; Schopfung oder Entstehung (1575) ; Die Vorge sehiehte der Ethnologic (1881) ; Der Buddhis inns in seiner Psyehologie (1882) ; Amerikas Nordwestkiiste (1883) ; Inselgruppen in Ocean ten (1883) ; Indonesicn (1SS4-94) ; Der Feast* an der Kiiste Guineas (1SS4) ; Die Seele in disehcr and hellenistischer Philosophic (1886); Ceber Klima and Acclimatisation (1889) ; Ideale We/ten (1893) ; Vorgeschichtlielic Senopfungs liedcr (1893) ; Ethnisehe Elementargedanken (1895) ; Die mikronesisehen. Kolonien (1899 1900) ; Die Volkerkunde mud der T'dlkerrerkehr (1900).