Teuira Henry
(1847-1915)
Tahitian scholar, ethnologist, folklorist, linguist, historian and educator
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Teuira Henry (24/27 January 1847 – 23 January 1915) was a British Tahitian scholar, ethnologist, folklorist, linguist, historian and educator. She worked to reconstruct a lost manuscript on the history of Tahiti written by her grandfather, English missionary John Muggridge Orsmond, by using his original notes. Most of her writings were published posthumously by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum as the book Ancient Tahiti.
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27 January 1847 Tahiti, Kingdom of Tahiti
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| Died |
23 January 1915 (aged 67) Paea, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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