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Visser, Robert, 1860-1937

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Personal name headingVisser, Robert, 1860-1937
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Birth date18601202
Death date19371119
Place of birthDüsseldorf, Germany
Place of deathBüderich bei Neuss, Germany
Field of activityKongo (African people)--Material culture Collectors and collecting Photography Plantations--Management
AffiliationNieuw Afrikaansche Handels-Vennootschap
Profession or occupationMerchant Plantation manager Collector of ethnographica Photographer
Found inMinkisi, 2012: p. 27 (Robert Visser; worked for the Dutch trading company Nieuw Afrikaansche Handels-Vennootschap on the Loango coast of West Central Africa between 1882 and 1904; sent home to Germany at least four large collections of ethnographic objects which he distributed among the ethnographic museums of Berlin, Leipzig and Stuttgart) p. 35 (Robert Visser; Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Robert Visser; b. Dec. 2, 1860 in Düsseldorf) p. 36 (d. Nov. 19, 1937, age 77, in Büderich bei Neuss)
Wikipedia, Apr. 20, 2013 Robert Visser (merchant, photographer, collector of ethnographica; from 1882 to 1904, employed as a plantation manager in Africa by Nieuw Afrikaansche Handels-Vennootschap)