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English: From 1920 to the start of his first India expedition in 1926, Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt moved from job to job, among them positions at the Anatomical Institute at Freiburg/Breisgau, the Museum of Natural History in Vienna and the Academy of Sciences at Munich. In Vienna he developed his plan of an India expedition and began work on what would later become his enormous "Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit" [Race and Racial History of Mankind]. Long and protracted negotiations regarding funding of the expedition were brought to a successful conclusion by the eloquent tactician, Mrs. Von Eickstedt. She also accompanied the expedition as an assistant in 1926 and shared all the trials and tribulations that such an undertaking brings with it until she had to return to Germany in 1928 for reasons of health. One of the high points of the expedition was a meeting with one of the greatest of all Indians, Rabindranath Tagore.