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Albert Samuel Gatschet was the son of Rev. Karl Albert and Mary (Ziegler) Gatschet. He was born on October 3, 1832, at Saint Beatenberg, Switzerland.
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Albert Samuel Gatschet (1832 – 1907) was a Swiss-American ethnologist who trained as a linguist in the universities of Bern and Berlin. He later moved to the United States and settled there in order to study Native American languages, in which field he was a pioneer. In 1877 he became an ethnologist with the US Geological Survey. In 1879 he became a member of the Bureau of American Ethnology, which was part of the Smithsonian Institution. Gatschet published his observations of the Karankawa people of Texas in the 1891 book "The Karankawa Indians, the Coast People of Texas." The Karankawa (also known as Carancahuas, Carancahuases, Carancouas, Caranhouas, Caronkawa) were a Native American people concentrated in southern Texas along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. They consisted of several independent seasonal nomadic groups who shared the same language and much of the same culture. The tribe included the groups called the Cujanes, Cocos, Guapites (Coapites), and Copanes. Some of the village names survived to modern day and are the Ebahamo, Emet, Kouyam, Meracouman, Quara, Quinet, and the Toyal villages. After establishing relations with the Spanish empire in the sixteenth century, the Karankawa played an important role in the goals of the Spanish empire, relations between the French, Spanish and English empires, and the Texan-Mexican War. In 1825, Stephen Austin commissioned a captain to lead volunteers to expel the Karankawa from the Austin land grant. In subsequent years, the Karankawa were repeatedly attacked by Texan colonists, who drove them out of their native territories. By the 1840s, the Karankawa split into two groups, one of which settled on Padre Island while the other fled into the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. In 1858, Juan Nepomuceno Cortina led a group of Texan colonists against the Karankawa's last refuge and killed the remaining members of the tribe. By 1891, the Karankawa as an organized tribe was believed to be extinct.
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Albert Samuel Gatschet was the son of Rev. Karl Albert and Mary (Ziegler) Gatschet. He was born on October 3, 1832, at Saint Beatenberg, Switzerland.
Attending the schools of Neuchâtel and Bern and early showing an aptitude for linguistics, he entered the University of Bern and subsequently completed his study courses in the University of Berlin, giving special attention to Greek and doctrinal criticism.
This began Gatschet’s fieldwork, in the course of which he gathered linguistic and other data on more than a hundred tribes.
At this period there were in America few students of Indian languages and perhaps none trained as Gatschet was by rigorous European methods.
In 1879, on the organization of the Bureau of Ethnology, he became a member. These were prolific years for the work on the linguistic -classification of the Indian tribes. The arrangement of the tribes into families speaking distinct languages published by Powell in the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau 1885-86 (1891) was in most part due to the work of Gatschet.
Years also of office work preparing the results of the collected data for publication were required.
Gatschet was appointed ethnologist in the United States Geological Survey because of his studies of Native American languages. Gatschet published his observations of the Karankawa people of Texas. His study of the Klamath people located in present-day Oregon, published in 1890, is recognized as outstanding.
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Quotations: “When philology shall take its proper place as the essential basis of anthropology, ” said his colleague, James Mooney, of Gatschet, “his name will stand with those of his distinguished countrymen, Gallatin and Agassiz, in the front rank of American science. ”
Albert was a member of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Gatschet’s major publications, technical in character which together with many smaller articles published in the United States and abroad, and hundreds of linguistic, ethnographic, and bibliographic notes and reviews appearing in various literary and scientific journals, show that his life was a busy one.
Gatschet completely disregarded his personal appearance and presented a rather uncouth figure, but those who knew him were impressed by his thoroughness, honesty, and the loyalty of his friendship.
In September 1892, Gatschet was married to Louise Horner of Philadelphia. They had no children.
