Rudolf Amandus Philippi was a German natural scientist, zoologist and botanist. In 1851 he emigrated to Chile, where he worked as a professor at the Universidad de Chile (Santiago de Chile). He was also director of the Museo Nacional in Santiago de Chile. Bernhard Eunom Philippi was a German naval officer and natural scientist. In 1837 he emigrated to Peru and settled in Chile a year later. The Philippi brothers played an instrumental role in German emigration and settlement in southern Chile in the early 1840s.

Material:

• 249 handwritten papers, 1 manuscript: on German emigration to Chile
• 1 handwritten manuscript (Bernhard Eunom Philippi: “Naturgeschichtliche Bemerkungen meiner Reisen 1836-40 in Peru”, place and year unspecified)
• manuscripts
• reports from expeditions
• private correspondence
• correspondence with the Chilean authorities
• files
• entries by German settlers
• invoices
• bills of delivery
• official documents

Keywords: Chile, Peru, Germans abroad, emigration