Christoph Von Fűrer-Haimendorf was born in June 1909 and died in June 1995, after enjoying a successful and prolific career as an anthropologist and ethnographer of the South Asian and Himalayan people.
Donated to the School of Oriental and African Studies by Nick Haimendorf after his father’s death, this collection is a comprehensive archive of written and photographic material and cine film that charts 50 years of scholarship.