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T TikiTomD Grand Member (6 years) Flagler Beach, FL Joined: Sep 20, 2009 Posts: 700	T TikiTomD Posted posted on Sat, Feb 25, 2012 4:54 PM Squid Row Mama, welcome to Tiki Central! Your absinthe-loving ways bring to mind another artist, Henri de Loutrouse-Lautrec, though I presume no parallels other than profession and preferred cocktail spirits. Really like your web site, PeguDoug... lots of images and information assembled in a witty and well-crafted format. From what I’ve learned thus far, Dr. Bernhard Funk was a character as captivating as any I’ve encountered in life or fiction, a colorful individual from an exotic and tumultuous past like Joe Scialom, the originator of the Suffering Bastard. Jeff “Beachbum” Berry has through his writings and seminars spotlighted Joe’s life and contributions to a contemporary audience. Dr. Funk seems worthy of being accorded the same, though he apparently “tippled” more than he mixed. A disproportionate number of recent scholarly citations regarding Dr. Funk’s life originated from the same place, an obscure 2007 working paper of the University of Auckland’s Department of German and Slavonic Studies by Leilani Burgoyne entitled “Going ‘Troppo’ in the South Pacific: Dr. Bernhard Funk of Samoa 1844–1911.” This looked like the “mother lode” of information about Dr. Funk. Just the name alone elicited a look… “going troppo” is Australian slang for “going crazy.” Unfortunately, this paper is not available in digital format, is not in print, nor is it available from sources like Amazon.com. It looked like the only way to read it would be to fly to the southern hemisphere and request to see a physical copy from a university library in Australia or New Zealand. On one of my internet diving expeditions, I happened upon a used copy of Leilani Burgoyne’s paper at a rare bookseller in Lübeck, Germany. It finally arrived... I’ve just started exploring it, but I am compelled to immediately share an image from it with my TC colleagues, the long sought photo of Dr. Bernhard Funk, this from late in life, with its source cited as the Regional Museum of Neubrandenburg... -Tom

Squid Row Mama, welcome to Tiki Central! Your absinthe-loving ways bring to mind another artist, Henri de Loutrouse-Lautrec, though I presume no parallels other than profession and preferred cocktail spirits.

Really like your web site, PeguDoug... lots of images and information assembled in a witty and well-crafted format.

From what I’ve learned thus far, Dr. Bernhard Funk was a character as captivating as any I’ve encountered in life or fiction, a colorful individual from an exotic and tumultuous past like Joe Scialom, the originator of the Suffering Bastard. Jeff “Beachbum” Berry has through his writings and seminars spotlighted Joe’s life and contributions to a contemporary audience. Dr. Funk seems worthy of being accorded the same, though he apparently “tippled” more than he mixed.

A disproportionate number of recent scholarly citations regarding Dr. Funk’s life originated from the same place, an obscure 2007 working paper of the University of Auckland’s Department of German and Slavonic Studies by Leilani Burgoyne entitled “Going ‘Troppo’ in the South Pacific: Dr. Bernhard Funk of Samoa 1844–1911.” This looked like the “mother lode” of information about Dr. Funk. Just the name alone elicited a look… “going troppo” is Australian slang for “going crazy.” Unfortunately, this paper is not available in digital format, is not in print, nor is it available from sources like Amazon.com. It looked like the only way to read it would be to fly to the southern hemisphere and request to see a physical copy from a university library in Australia or New Zealand.

On one of my internet diving expeditions, I happened upon a used copy of Leilani Burgoyne’s paper at a rare bookseller in Lübeck, Germany. It finally arrived...

I’ve just started exploring it, but I am compelled to immediately share an image from it with my TC colleagues, the long sought photo of Dr. Bernhard Funk, this from late in life, with its source cited as the Regional Museum of Neubrandenburg...

-Tom

Post #626444 by TikiTomD on Sat, Feb 25, 2012 4:54 PM