Friedrich von Hellwald

Friedrich Anton Heller of Hellwald ( born March 29, 1842 in Padua, † November 1, 1892 in Cannstatt ) was an Austrian cultural historian.

Life

Light from Light Forest was the son of the Austrian military historian Friedrich Jacob Heller. At age 16, he joined as a cadet in a military. Despite the prospect of a career he resigned in 1864 to devote himself to his studies.

After he had taken part in the war of 1866, he got a job as an editor in Vienna, the Austrian military journal. Here he was a later successor of his father. 1872 appointed one of Heller Hellwald as chief editor to Stuttgart in the editor of the weekly newspaper The abroad. As vehement defenders of evolution of Charles Darwin, he soon made itself unpopular and had to resign his office in 1882 as editor in chief.

Nationwide Heller of Hellwald was also known for his travel books and his " cultural history ". In his popular science books he represented vehemently rassendarwinistische direction of anthropology, according to which there are folks who would die and therefore should be eradicated, such as the Native Americans, the South African Khoisan and Australian Aborigines. Compared with other racial ideologues of his time he takes an extreme position, which seems to have but the popularity and spread of his books in German- educated middle class done any harm. The works - especially The earth and its peoples - reached several editions.

At the age of 50 years died Friedrich Anton Heller of Hellwald on November 1, 1892 in Cannstatt near Stuttgart.

Works

  • Central Asia: landscapes and peoples in Kashgar, Turkistan, Kashmir and Tibet. - Leipzig: spamer, 1875
  • The earth and its peoples. A geographic House Book. - Stuttgart: Francke 1876; ( 4th edition 1893; to translations in other languages)
  • Cultural history in their natural development to the present. - Augsburg: Butsch, 1875
  • Natural history of man. - Stuttgart: Francke, 1.1883 - 2.1885
  • The Russians in Central Asia. - Augsburg: Butsch, 1875
  • Behind Indian lands and peoples. Traveling in the river basins of the Irrawaddy and Mekong; in Burma, Annam, Cambodia and Siam. Leipzig 1880.
  • The human family after their formation and natural development. Leipzig 1889. (Online in the Google Book Search )
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