Guido Boggiani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Guido Boggiani

Italian artist (1861-1902)

Date of Birth: 25-Sep-1861

Place of Birth: Omegna, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 07-May-1902

Profession: photographer, painter, anthropologist, explorer

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Guido Boggiani (1861–1902) was an Italian painter, draftsman, photographer, and ethnologist who in 1887 traveled through the interior of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay to document the lives of Indians in the region.
Now hailed as a "pioneer of fieldwork" in Italian ethnology, he was ritually killed by natives in 1902.