Post #618199 by TikiTomD on Wed, Dec 21, 2011 5:31 PM

I found this letter to the editor posted by a great-grandniece of Dr. Funk in the online edition of the Samoa Observer. There is no date that I can find, but the sub-heading on the web page is “Old Observer Archive,” suggesting it is not recent, but there is a hint in the narrative that it’s not too old either. It provides a sketch of the enigmatic Dr. Funk’s life, interests and humanity, but no photo (she was hoping someone could yet locate photos)...

There exists a 37-page copy of a Dr. Funk biography, Going "troppo" in the South Pacific : Dr. Bernhard Funk of Samoa, 1844-1911 by Leilani Burgoyne published by the University of Auckland, Dept. of German and Slavonic Studies, in 2007. It might contain a photo, but is not available in an online edition, nor is it for sale at any of the retailers that I know to check. It is available for viewing in the Main Reading Room at the National Library of Australia and also at the University of Auckland, New Zealand where it was published. Maybe one of our TC Ohana in the Southern Hemisphere can figure out how to get a copy of a Dr. Funk photo, if it exists in this work.

-Tom