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Francis James Gillen (28 October 1855 – 5 June 1912), also known as Frank Gillen and F. J. Gillen, was an early Australian anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his work with W. Baldwin Spencer, including their seminal work The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899).
Francis James Gillen (1855-1912), ethnologist, was born on 28 October 1855 at Little Para, South Australia, eldest son of Thomas Gillen, agricultural labourer, and his wife Bridget, née McCan. His Irish parents had migrated to Australia in the year of his birth and settled at Clare.
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Francis James Gillen and Walter Baldwin Spencer amassed what is perhaps the most influential collection of Australian ethnographic material ever assembled. Their work had a decisive influence on the early development of anthropology, particularly in Europe.
Jun 1, 2024 · Francis James Gillen (born Oct. 28, 1855, Clare, near Adelaide, S.Aus., Australia—died June 5, 1912) was an Australian anthropologist who did pioneering fieldwork among the Aborigines of central Australia.
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It was later said that Baldwin Spencer’s greatest discovery was Frank Gillen. The converse was also true. When in 1912 Frank Gillen died of a debilitating neurological disorder Spencer wrote to Gillen’s widow the kind of letter we might all hope to write at such a time.
Francis James Gillen (1855-1912) was born on 28 October 1855 at Little Para, South Australia to Irish-born parents. Gillen joined the South Australian postal service in the late 1860s and began working on the overland telegraph line, at Charlotte Waters in 1875, before being appointed Alice Springs telegraph station master in 1892.
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Frank Gillen (1855-1912) was for many years associated with the Overland Telegraph Line that ran between Adelaide and Darwin, and in 1892 was appointed the post and telegraph stationmaster at Alice Springs.
