You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (September 2010) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
View a machine-translated version of the German article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Rudolf Pöch]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Rudolf Pöch}} to the talk page.
His work for the Ethnological Museum in Berlin inspired Pöch to undertake an expedition to New Guinea (1901–1906), where he was the first to find scientific evidence for the existence of pygmies. Pöchs technical equipment is especially noteworthy. It included a photo camera, a cine camera and a phonograph, which enabled Pöch to take pictures, video and audio documents of the indigenous population. His 72 recordings of songs and narratives in Papuan languages were seen as a sensation at the time.
A second expedition between 1907 and 1909 took Pöch to South Africa. During World War I, Pöch gained notoriety for his ethnological studies conducted in prisoner of war camps.
While some of Pöch's theories regarding the indigenous people of New Guinea have been discredited, scientific research and museums continue to benefit from his collections. His technical equipment is currently exhibited at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.
