Anatole von Hügel

Anatole von Hügel ( Sept 29 1854, Florence - Aug 15 1928 Cambridge) was the second son of the Austrian nobleman Charles von Hügel and his Scottish wife Elizabeth Farquharson. His elder brother was Friedrich von Hügel.

His family moved to England in 1867 after his father's retirement. From 1874 to 1878 he collected natural history specimens in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, and Java. He became an authority of Fiji, after his lengthy travels in the practically unknown interior of Viti Levu to record the original Fijian culture before the British colonization.

In 1880 he married Eliza Margaret Froude, daughter of William Froude and in 1883 he became the first curator of the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Anatole would go on to co-found St Edmund's College, Cambridge with Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk.

References

*"The Fiji Journals of Baron Anatole Von Hugel 1875-1877", Roth, Jane and Steven Hooper (eds.), Suva: Fiji Museum in association with Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology, 1990
*"Baron Anatole von Hugel", Obituary by A. C. Haddon & Alfred P. Maudslay in "Man", Vol. 28 pp 169-171 (Oct. 1928)