Adolf Schlagintweit
Adolf Schlagintweit ( born January 9, 1829 in Munich, † August 26 1857 in Kashgar ) was a German traveler and explorer.
Life
The son of Joseph Schlagintweit 1847 made his Abitur at Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich.
Schlagintweit published together with his older brother Hermann joint research results to meteorological and geological observations in the Alps ( studies on the physical geography of the Alps, Leipzig 1850). He then attended together with his brother England and Scotland before taking further examinations of the Alps in attack. Here they failed on the first ascent of the Dufour Peak, the highest peak of Monte Rosa, is only just.
Schlagintweit habilitated at the University of Munich with the geological survey of the Bavarian Alps, which he had continued in 1852 and 1853. Together with his brother Hermann, he published the results in New investigations about the physical geography and geology of the Alps ( Leipzig 1854).
The brothers received through the mediation of Alexander von Humboldt an order of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the British East India Company for further scientific exploration of India, on which she accompanied her younger brother Robert. About Bombay one traveled through the Deccan to Madras. Adolf and Robert went out in the northwestern provinces and employed since April 1855 with the exploration of the high mountains of the Himalayas, particularly the high passes and giant glaciers of the western part. At 7,756 m high Kamet they climbed a height of 6,785 m, which was a record amount for their time.
The Winter 1855 1856 was spent on studies of the Indian Peninsula and met in May in Shimla again with Hermann together. All three of them turned to high Asia, where they went individually and together to Kashmir, Ladakh and Baltistan.
Adolf Schlagintweit toured in the summer of 1857 again the highlands north of the Himalayas, crossed the eastern Kunlun than his brothers in the previous year and then went down into Turkestan. In the vicinity of Kashgar he was captured and beheaded on August 26, 1857 without a trial or hearing in the court of Hodja Wali Khan as a suspected Chinese spy.