Research Projects at the Anthropological Department of the Vienna Natural History Museum

Many of Rudolf Pöch’s preserved manuscripts are written in a shorthand that is no longer used these days. They should be transcribed and digitised. Once made available for research through database access, these manuscripts should help to identify objects from all parts of the collection and put them into their context.

Building on Rudolf Pöch’s preserved correspondence with his contemporaries in various fields of research and politics, another objective is to reconstruct his anthropological approaches and activities within the scientific community of the 1900 to 1920 period.

The photographic material must be digitised and accessioned so as to be available for analysis of its impact on the anthropological approach to man and the human body in the context of other scientific imagery that Pöch had developed for anthropology and ethnology.

Staff:
HR Univ.-Prof.Dr. Maria Teschler-Nicola
MMag. Katarina Matiasek
Wolfgang Reichmann
Hildtraud Windl
Bettina Voglsinger