Julius Asmus was a German physician, mathematician and explorer (Batavia/Indonesia, 1849-50). Around 1865 Asmus started working at a school in Valparaíso (Chile), where he stayed for close to ten years. He returned to Berlin in mid-1880 after being appointed to the Hydrographic Institute of the Imperial Naval Office.

Material:

• 2 academic transcripts
• correspondence
• 2 postcards
• 28 photographs (Valparaíso and family)
• 1 pocket barometer
• 1 pocket compass
• other materials

Keywords: Chile, relations between Germany and Latin America, Germans abroad, emigration, Latin America, history of science