SterlyJ

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Sterly, Joachim

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)

Born: 1926, Bremen, Germany.

career:

Took his Ph.D. at the University of Cologne, Germany (1963), and subsequently got a grant from the ‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’ (1963-66).¹ Founder and chairman of the ‘Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin’ (1970), and Editor of the periodical ‘Ethnomedizin’ from 1971 onwards. From 1970-73 he was once more awarded a grant and made a study of ethnobotany, medicinal plants and medicinal sociology in the New Guinean highlands.² End 1973 appointed lecturer of ethnology and theoretical anthropology at the University of Cologne.

Collecting localities:

1971. Territory of Papua and New Guinea (June 1-Dec. 30): Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Rabaul (New Britian), Goroka, Mt Hagen, and Kundiawa. Collecting was done in Chimbu Valley, Chimbu Distr., Central Highland, viz: in Lower Chimbu, territory of the Kamanuku tribe (environs of Kundiawa and Porol Range), and in Upper Chimbu, territory of the Kuglkane tribe (environs of Womatne south of Gembogl).

collections:

About 300 useful plants of the Kamanuku and Kuglkane, Herb. Hamb. [HBG].

literature:

(1) His bibliographical study resulting in ‘Heilpflanzen der Einwohner Melanesiens’ (Hamburg 1970).
(2) J. Sterly: ‘Krankheiten and Krankenbehandelung bei den Chimbu im Zentralen Hochland von Neu-Guinea’ (Buske Verlag Hamburg 1973).

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature
	Sterly, Joachim
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 8: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement II)
	Born: 1926, Bremen, Germany.
	career: Took his Ph.D. at the University of Cologne, Germany (1963), and subsequently got a grant from the ‘Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’ (1963-66).¹ Founder and chairman of the ‘Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin’ (1970), and Editor of the periodical ‘Ethnomedizin’ from 1971 onwards. From 1970-73 he was once more awarded a grant and made a study of ethnobotany, medicinal plants and medicinal sociology in the New Guinean highlands.² End 1973 appointed lecturer of ethnology and theoretical anthropology at the University of Cologne.
	Collecting localities: 1971. Territory of Papua and New Guinea (June 1-Dec. 30): Port Moresby, Lae, Madang, Rabaul (New Britian), Goroka, Mt Hagen, and Kundiawa. Collecting was done in Chimbu Valley, Chimbu Distr., Central Highland, viz: in Lower Chimbu, territory of the Kamanuku tribe (environs of Kundiawa and Porol Range), and in Upper Chimbu, territory of the Kuglkane tribe (environs of Womatne south of Gembogl).
	collections: About 300 useful plants of the Kamanuku and Kuglkane, Herb. Hamb. [HBG].
	literature: (1) His bibliographical study resulting in ‘Heilpflanzen der Einwohner Melanesiens’ (Hamburg 1970). (2) J. Sterly: ‘Krankheiten and Krankenbehandelung bei den Chimbu im Zentralen Hochland von Neu-Guinea’ (Buske Verlag Hamburg 1973).