Albert von Sack

Sebastian Albert Freiherr von Sack, 1821 Count of bag ( * 1757 in Eichholz, district Liegnitz, Silesia Today: Warmątowice Siekiewiczkowskie, Poland, † August 7, 1829 in Berlin) was a Silesian explorer, royal Prussian chamberlain and Knights of St John.

Life

Albert Freiherr von bag was as Prussian royal chamberlain and deputy chief hunter on June 9, 1821 in Berlin by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. elevated to the Prussian count conditions. In 1822, sat v. sack the orphanage in Halle, an agency of the Francke Foundations, sole heir of his not inconsiderable assets a.

Travel to Suriname

After his first trip to Suriname in April 1805 he came then from there in 1807 to North America, where he also visited the cities of Providence, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon. The return trip to Germany took place on New York and Lisbon. 1810 his travel reports of the years 1805 to 1807 were published in England.

His second trip to Suriname he finished 1812 in England.

Travel to the Middle East

On August 20, 1817, he joined together with with the poet Wilhelm Müller a research trip to Greece and Asia Minor. After their stay from September to November 1817 in Vienna they changed on 6 November 1817, the route and traveled together with Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld on. Schnorr remained in Florence, Müller and went on to sack Rome. There they met a January 4, 1818, however, it came to a rift there and bag traveled in April 1818 on their own.

The now located in the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities fragment from the tomb of Nikarete acquired Albert Sack 1820. It was one of the first ancient works of art that were not on the Italian art market to Berlin. Bag traveled with the then Austrian consul in Athens, Georg Christian Gropius, through Greece and the Orient and bought during this time a collection of ancient artifacts, which he later bequeathed the collection of antiquities in Berlin.

On his return journey he collected in 1821 on Zakynthos contemporary folk music for the diplomat and historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr. The Royal Library in Berlin came into the possession of the collection that is now kept after removal from Berlin to Silesia in the Second World War in the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. You will be evaluated scientifically since the beginning of the 21st century.

Bag made ​​of water samples from this trip to the Orient the Dresden researchers Heinrich Ficinus available for analysis, thereby fueling its activities. Based on the acquired inter alia reputation he could cause the gardener Ferdinand Deppe initiated at the 1824 sack and financed expedition to Mexico was able to attend.

Works

• A Narrative of a voyage to Surinam of a residence there falling on 1805, 1806 and 1807 and of the authors return to Europe by the way of North America by Albert Sack. London: Bulmer, 1810
• Stimuli naar Surinamen, verblijf aldaar, en terugtogt over North America naar Europe. Haarlem: François Erven Bohn, 1821.
• Description of a trip to Suriname: Volume 1: Description of a trip to Surinam and stay there during the years 1805, 1806, 1807 as well as of the author's return to Europe over North America from the Baron Albert von Sack. Berlin: Haude and Spener, 1818.
• Volume 2: Description of a trip to Surinam and stay there in the years 1810, 1811, 1812 as well as of the author's return to Europe over North America from the Baron Albert von Sack. Berlin: Haude and Spener, 1818.