Tgh strehlow biography of albert

          According to TGH Strehlow, Albert's totem was a carpet snake since he was born at Palitinja.!

          Ted Strehlow

          Australian anthropologist and linguist (1908–1978)

          Theodor George Henry Strehlow (6 June 1908 – 3 October 1978) was an Australian anthropologist and linguist.

          Albert Namatjira was the first Australian Aborigine to be recognized both nationally and internationally as an artist.

        1. Theodor George Henry (Ted) Strehlow was born at Hermannsburg, kilometres south-west of Alice Springs.
        2. According to TGH Strehlow, Albert's totem was a carpet snake since he was born at Palitinja.
        3. Described by some as Australia's greatest missionary, Albrecht battled to gain secure reserves on traditional lands, and to foster Aboriginal education.
        4. A subtle and compelling biography of FW Albrecht, the longest-serving superintendent of central Australia's oldest mission, Hermannsburg.

          5. He studied the Arrernte (Aranda, Arunta) Aboriginal Australians and their language in Central Australia.

          Life

          Early life

          Strehlow's father was Carl Strehlow, Lutheran pastor and Superintendent, since 1896, of the Hermannsburg Mission, southwest of Alice Springs on the Finke River.

          (Carl was also a gifted linguist who studied and documented the local languages, and Ted later built upon his work.) Strehlow was born, a month premature, at Hermannsburg, the native place name being Ntaria.[a] He was raised trilingually, speaking, in addition to English, also Arrernte with the Aboriginal maids and native children, and German with his immediate family.

          After a family visit to Germany when he was three years old (1911), he returned with his parents, and grew up parted from his four elder brothers a