Ernst Sarfert

In 1907 he became a volunteer at the Museum für Völkerkunde (Museum of Ethnography) in Leipzig, and during the following year received his doctorate with a thesis on natives of North America, titled Haus und Dorf bei den eingeborenen Nordamerikas.

[1] From 1908 to 1910 he took part in the Südsee-Expedition (South Sea Expedition) to Melanesia and Micronesia aboard the research vessel Peiho.

On the expedition he conducted extensive ethnological research on the atolls/islands of Sorol, Ifalik, Satawal, Puluwat and Kosrae.

[1] After his return to Germany, he served as director of the Indonesian-Oceanic department at the Leipzig Museum of Ethnography.

At the end of World War I he voluntarily left the museum, and later worked as an independent distributor of radios.