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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Feb 13, 2008 8:21 PM Since 1865. For stories, you gotta ask my dad or my sister. My own interests always lay more with the arts, my ancestors on my father's side just seemed like stuffy and stern businessmen...take good ol' Robert for example, not exactly the laid back kinda guy: My grand dad died when I was a kid, my favorite picture of him is hauling a bunch of kids in his old "Adler" limousine to our weekend vacation farm: But I really don't want to make this into a non-Tiki thread, so I will only talk about related aspects, like the fact that one of my ancestors did have some dealings in person in Fiji in the 1870s. He is mentioned in the diary of a Captain Nils Simon Michelsen...unfortunately it's in German, and not of enough interest to be translated: This Captain Michelsen wrote down some observations on "Traders and Traders' Life in the South Seas", too: (sorry, am too lazy to translate) In general I am proud of the fact that some Hamburg shipping families were very active in ethnographic studies in the South Seas, and that the objects they brought back to Europe formed ethnographic collections that eventually grew into the first ethnological museums, like the house Godeffroy: But I actually feel more akin to another shipping family's member, the man I quoted in the Book of Tiki with the famous "Anyone who has ever seen them is thereafter haunted as if by a feverish dream", Karl Woermann, whose father Carl founded the Woermann Line: Some may remember that I found the above in the office of a Dr. Woermann in Capetown who treated me for a sinus infection when I was working there - a small world indeed. He was a descendant of Karl's brother Adolph, who took over the family business after Karl had declined because he wanted to study art! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Woermann Only found in the German Wikipedia is the fact that Karl was named Carl initially, because he was the first born son to Carl sr., but when he decided to choose the arts over the family business, his father made him change the "C" to "K" and disowned him, breaking off all contact: "...Als sein ältester Sohn und geplanter Nachfolger Carl kein Interesse für den Kaufhandel zeigte und stattdessen Kunsthistoriker werden wollte, forderte Carl Woermann von ihm die Änderung seines Namens in Karl Woermann und brach den Kontakt mit ihm ab..." My dad also was more interested in the arts, but was forced to follow in his father's footsteps. I benefitted from that by getting to follow my calling. CARL and his son Adolph were typical colonialists, trading African goods for guns and liquor, which even aroused protest in the German Parliament in 1889. Unfortunately all this is only to be found in the German Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Woermann So KARL did the right thing by becoming an art historian instead, and giving us such a splendid quote to describe today's Tiki Fever! :) [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2008-02-13 20:37 ]

Since 1865. For stories, you gotta ask my dad or my sister. My own interests always lay more with the arts, my ancestors on my father's side just seemed like stuffy and stern businessmen...take good ol' Robert for example, not exactly the laid back kinda guy:

My grand dad died when I was a kid, my favorite picture of him is hauling a bunch of kids in his old "Adler" limousine to our weekend vacation farm:

But I really don't want to make this into a non-Tiki thread, so I will only talk about related aspects, like the fact that one of my ancestors did have some dealings in person in Fiji in the 1870s. He is mentioned in the diary of a Captain Nils Simon Michelsen...unfortunately it's in German, and not of enough interest to be translated:

This Captain Michelsen wrote down some observations on "Traders and Traders' Life in the South Seas", too:

(sorry, am too lazy to translate)

In general I am proud of the fact that some Hamburg shipping families were very active in ethnographic studies in the South Seas, and that the objects they brought back to Europe formed ethnographic collections that eventually grew into the first ethnological museums, like the house Godeffroy:

But I actually feel more akin to another shipping family's member, the man I quoted in the Book of Tiki with the famous "Anyone who has ever seen them is thereafter haunted as if by a feverish dream", Karl Woermann, whose father Carl founded the Woermann Line:

Some may remember that I found the above in the office of a Dr. Woermann in Capetown who treated me for a sinus infection when I was working there - a small world indeed. He was a descendant of Karl's brother Adolph, who took over the family business after Karl had declined because he wanted to study art!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Woermann

Only found in the German Wikipedia is the fact that Karl was named Carl initially, because he was the first born son to Carl sr., but when he decided to choose the arts over the family business, his father made him change the "C" to "K" and disowned him, breaking off all contact:

"...Als sein ältester Sohn und geplanter Nachfolger Carl kein Interesse für den Kaufhandel zeigte und stattdessen Kunsthistoriker werden wollte, forderte Carl Woermann von ihm die Änderung seines Namens in Karl Woermann und brach den Kontakt mit ihm ab..."

My dad also was more interested in the arts, but was forced to follow in his father's footsteps. I benefitted from that by getting to follow my calling.

CARL and his son Adolph were typical colonialists, trading African goods for guns and liquor, which even aroused protest in the German Parliament in 1889. Unfortunately all this is only to be found in the German Wikipedia:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Woermann

So KARL did the right thing by becoming an art historian instead, and giving us such a splendid quote to describe today's Tiki Fever! :)

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2008-02-13 20:37 ]

Post #361045 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Feb 13, 2008 8:21 PM