Balduin Möllhausen

Baldwin Möllhausen ( born January 27, 1825 Bonn, † May 28, 1905 in Berlin) was a German writer and traveler.

Life

Möllhausens father was Lützower Hunter, a lieutenant in the artillery and later engineer in railway construction in Greece. His mother was a daughter of Baron von Falkenstein near Anklam. Baldwin Möllhausen initially grew up in Bonn, where he attended high school. He then completed an agricultural education in the Pomeranian home of his mother and graduated in Stralsund his military service. In 1849 he undertook the first of three long trips to North America. In 1851 he was a member of the expedition of Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg. This trip resulted in the Southern Rocky Mountains and Wyoming. After his return he got on the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt's employment as a topographer for a new expedition, which had the exploration of a rail route through North America to Los Angeles to the destination. From 1854 he lived in Berlin at Humboldt, where he met Caroline Seifert, whose alleged father was valet Humboldt; most likely she was actually Humboldt's illegitimate daughter. Möllhausen she married in 1855.

King Frederick William IV appointed Möllhausen to the custodian of the libraries in the royal palaces in and around Potsdam. In 1857 he undertook the third North American tour. After his return he lived in Potsdam and from 1886 in Berlin- Charlottenburg, where he died in 1905. He was buried at the ( present-day state-owned ) cemetery Columbiadamm. The tomb, as an honorary grave of Berlin is located in the field of O IV, G3. In Potsdam, he was a member of the Masonic Lodge Teutonia wisdom.

He made hundreds of drawings and watercolors, and wrote with his travelogues ( " Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the shores of the Pacific " and " trips to the Rocky Mountains of North America up to the high plateau of New Mexico " ) with the best travel books of the 19th century. He wrote the first pictures of the Grand Canyon and the people living there and Wallapai Mohave Indians. His artistic work and his travelogues are among the most important documents of the exploration of the North American West. He was supported by Alexander von Humboldt and was acquainted with Theodor Fontane. Later, he utilized his experiences and memories in more than 40 novels and numerous short stories and novellas. He was with this adventurous and exotic subjects one of the most popular writers of his time, and together with Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May and Charles Sealsfield one of the most important authors in the field of German ethnological adventure novel of the 19th century.

Among the many interesting advanced aspects of this life ( father was in the U.S. legally known architect, friendship with Prince Frederick Charles, marrying a probably illegitimate daughter of Alexander von Humboldt, acquaintance with Theodor Fontane, template generator for numerous figures and descriptions of Karl May, about Nscho -chi, forming strong co-designer of the German ideas of the "Wild West ", etc.) is also the difficult friendship Möllhausens with the doctor and writer Philipp Galen mentioned, which was Möllhausens neighbor in Potsdam in the 1860s and 1870s. Galen was in its time a very well-known author of tangled mystery novels in the English style ( cf. Wilkie Collins), his most famous work is The Madwoman of St. James. Maybe specific design elements originate the Novels Möllhausens of this model.

Honor

In 1939, the former Kleiststraße of the villa colony Wendenschloß in the Berlin district of Köpenick was renamed Möllhausenufer.

Trivia

The writer Hans Heinz Ewers, who was a friend of his, named the Baldwin students from the film The Student of Prague to him.

Works

  • Diary of a Journey from the Mississippi to the shores of the Pacific (Leipzig 1858)
  • Trips to the Rocky Mountains of North America to the high plateau of New Mexico ( 2 vols, Leipzig 1861)
  • The half- Indian. Story from western North America ( 4 volumes, Leipzig 1861)
  • The Refugee. Story from New Mexico and the adjacent Indian Territory (Leipzig 1862)
  • The Mayordomo. Novel from Southern California and New Mexico following the " half-breed " and " refugee " ( 4 volumes, Leipzig 1863)
  • Palm leaves and snowflakes. Tales from the Far West ( Leipzig 1863)
  • The Mormon girls. A story from the time of the war campaign of the United States against the " Latter Day Saints " in the years 1857-1858. ( 6 volumes, Jena 1864)
  • Relics. Narratives and descriptions of western North America (3 volumes, Berlin 1865)
  • The Mandanenwaise. Story from the Rhineland and the basin of the Missouri ( Berlin 1865)
  • The Sea King. A narrative ( 6 volumes, Jena 1867)
  • North and South. Narratives and descriptions of western North America ( Jena 1867)
  • The Highland piper. Narrative ( 6 volumes, Jena 1868)
  • The Hundred Guilder Print. Narrative ( Berlin 1870)
  • The Pirate Lieutenant. Roman ( Berlin 1870)
  • The tinkers. Narrative ( Berlin 1871)
  • The Finkenhaus. Roman ( Berlin 1872)
  • Western tracks. Narratives and descriptions (Berlin 1873)
  • The hermitesses. Roman ( Berlin 1873)
  • The monogram. Roman ( 4 volumes, Berlin 1873)
  • The hyenas of capital. Roman ( 4 volumes, Berlin 1876)
  • The children of the convict. Roman ( Berlin 1876)
  • The herons. Roman ( Berlin 1878)
  • The Treasure of Quivira. Roman ( 3 vols, Berlin 1880)
  • The daughters of the consul. Roman ( 4 volumes, Berlin 1880)
  • Four fragments. Roman ( Berlin 1880)
  • The lighthouse at Michigan and Other Stories (Stuttgart 1882)
  • The fanatic. Roman ( Berlin 1883)
  • The major-domo. Roman ( 3 volumes, Jena 1884)
  • The Trader. Roman ( 3 vols, Berlin 1884)
  • Wild blood. Narrative (3 volumes, Jena 1886)
  • The Loggbuch the captain's iron fingers. Roman ( Stuttgart 1887)
  • The Melville family. Roman ( Leipzig 1888)
  • The secret of the Hulks. Roman ( Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, 1889 )
  • The ferryman on Kanadian. Roman ( 3 volumes, Stuttgart 1890)
  • The two yachts. Roman ( 3 volumes, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, 1891)
  • Montague House. Roman ( 3 volumes, Jena 1891)
  • The hirelings. Roman ( 3 volumes, Stuttgart 1892)
  • The spy. Roman ( 3 volumes, Stuttgart 1893)
  • Kaptein Sea Rose and her children. Narrative ( 3 vols, Berlin 1893)
  • The Talisman. Roman ( Jena 1894)
  • Which of two? (Novel in a library of entertainment and knowledge, Stuttgart / Berlin / Leipzig 1895)
  • The Three Linden Songs ( Berlin 1896)
  • To millions. Roman ( Roman in 8 installments in a library of entertainment and knowledge, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, 1897, Volumes 1-8 )
  • Which of two? Roman ( 2 volumes, Stuttgart 1897)
  • Purgatory in frappes wigwam. Roman ( Leipzig 1900)
  • The Postman. Narrative ( Leipzig 1903)
  • Images from the realm of nature (Berlin 1904)
  • St. Elmo's fire and other stories (Berlin, Leipzig 1905)
  • The Vaquero. Roman ( Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig 1905)
  • The mistress of Thurneck ( Ablit, Munich 2004; initial publication of the estate )

Reprints

At present ( 2012) are available in bookstores the following editions:

  • The Treasure of Quivira. ISBN 3-935410 -00- X
  • The Mormon girls. ISBN 3-935410-02-6
  • The Vaquero. ISBN 3-935410-05-0
  • The mistress of Thurneck. ISBN 3-935410-06-9
  • The Pirate Lieutenant. ISBN 3-935410-07-7
  • The Finkenhaus. ISBN 3-935410-08-5
  • The arriero. Total stories. Volume 1 ISBN 3-935410-09-3.
  • Andreas Graf ( ed.): Stories from the Wild West. dtv classical music, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-02364-3.
  • Walks through the prairies and deserts of North America. Trips to the Rocky Mountains of North America. New edition of the original text völlständigen. 2 vols. hohesufer.com, Hannover 2012 ISBN. 978-3-941513-24-2.
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