Justus Wolfram Schottelius was a German dramaturge and ethnologist. He studied law and philosophy at Friedrich Wilhelm University, Berlin (today’s Humboldt University of Berlin). He penned his first drama in 1911, following by other plays and stories. From 1919 to 1924 he was stage director at the municipal theatre in Flensburg. In 1924 he took up a post at Berlin Royal Museum of Ethnology. During this period, he started publishing popular scientific articles on Mexico and other studies on the colonial history of South America and the archaeology in Mexico. From 1929 to 1932 Schottelius worked at the Ullstein Verlag publishing house, where he was in charge of the ethnological section of the Ullstein encyclopedia. From 1934 to 1938 he worked at the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin. He left Germany in 1938 and emigrated to Columbia, where he worked at the Museo Arqueológico in Bogotá until his death. During his time there, he conducted studies on archaeology and ethnology in Columbia.

Material:
The material covers the following themes: Pedro Alvarado, the colonial era in Peru, the Inca Empire, a report on the excavation of a burial cave (Chibcha, Columbia).

• 1 typed manuscript (“Über Fotografien alter Stadtpläne von Mexiko im Besitz des Ibero-Amerikanischen Instituts, Berlin”, Berlin 1933, 9 sheets, with 33 black-and-white photographs)
• 8 manuscripts (some unpublished, including 34 individual texts compiled in a folder, some with consecutive page numbers; topic: Pedro Alvarado)
• notes
• illustrations
• drawings
• sketches
• letters
• personal papers
• 2 albums with photographs from Columbia (circa 1941)
• 133 glass slides (mainly related to Mexican, Peruvian and Egyptian archaeology)
• 4 films
• 15 lead figures
• newspaper clippings

Keywords: Columbia, Peru, archaeology, history of conquest