Basil Hall

Basil Hall ( born December 31, 1788 in Edinburgh, † September 11, 1844 in Portsmouth) was a British sailor, explorer and scientist.

Life

Basil Hall was the son of Sir James Hall (d. 1832), a well-known scientific work by Scottish baronet. He joined in 1802 as a midshipman in the British Navy, in 1816 commanded the an embassy to China beige abandoned ship Lyra, with whom he also visited the Ryukyu Islands, on the account of a voyage of discovery to the western coast of Corea and the Great be Loochoo Iceland (London 1818) gave the first detailed messages.

Then he crossed to the coasts of South America, which he described in Extracts from a journal written on the coasts of Chile, Peru and Mexico in 1820-22 (London 1824, 2 vols ).

As a result, a trip through the United States his Travels in North America appeared in the years 1827 and 1828 (1839, 3 vols ). He also wrote: The castle of Grove Field (1836; German, Berlin 1836); Fragments of voyages and travels ( 1831-40, 9 vols ) and patchwork (1841, 3 vols ). In old age he was declared insane and died on 11 September 1844 Portsmouth Haslar Hospital.

Works (selection)

• Voyage of discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the great Loo - Choo Iceland. Nachdr d ed London, Murray, 1818. Seoul Computer Press, 1990. Reprint series, Royal Asiatic Society, Korea Branch.
• Excerpts from a diary written on the coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822, Stuttgart. Cotta, 1824-1825.
• Expedition to the west coast of Korea and the large Lutschu Island of the Captain Basil Hall. From d Engl transl. and by appointment gegleitet by Friedrich Rühs. Weimar: Verl d whol. Saxon. priv Landes-Industrie - Comptoirs, 1819.
• Castle Grove field, or: A Winter in Styria. Under the eyes of the author of d Engl transl. Minna Herthum. Berlin: Eichler, 1836.