Hermann Schlagintweit
Hermann Schlagintweit, 1859 by Schlagintweit, since 1866 Freiherr von Schlagintweit ( born May 13, 1826 in Munich, † January 19, 1882 in Munich) was a German naturalist and traveler.
Family
Schlagintweit was the son of the Imperial Council and the Real ophthalmologist Dr. med. et chir. Joseph Schlagintweit ( 1791-1854 ).
He was with his brother Robert on August 28, 1859 ( Berchtesgaden ) charged with diploma dated 24 November 1859 ( Munich ) in the Bavarian hereditary nobility and enrolled on December 12, 1859 in the Kingdom of Bavaria to the noble class. Hermann was purchased at auction as the Kwen -lun at stimulating the names " of Schlagintweit - Sakünlünski " and was raised in 1866 in a baron.
Life
Together with his brothers Adolf and Robert he dealt with early physical and geological investigations. Your employed in the Alps 1846-1848 observations they published in the studies on the physical geography of the Alps ( Leipzig 1850). Hermann and Adolf then visited England and Scotland in 1851, and went again into the Alps, where they narrowly failed on 23 August 1851 the first ascent of the highest peak of Monte Rosa, the 4634 high Dufour tip.
Hermann von Schlagintweit subsequently received a teaching position at the University of Berlin, where he taught meteorology and physical geography. With Adolf, he wrote the work New studies on the physical geography and geology of the Alps ( Leipzig 1854). In this work also appeared a work of the younger brother Robert on the geology of the Kaiser mountains for the first time.
Hermann and Adolf constructed two reliefs, one for the Monte Rosa and the other for the Zugspitze; according to these reliefs also known as photographic maps were later made ( published in Berlin in 1854 ).
Alexander von Humboldt gave the brothers an order of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the East India Company to undertake a scientific trip to India, where she also accompanied Robert. We first went to Bombay and then continue on two separate paths to Madras. Adolf and Robert went to the northwestern areas in order to explore the mountain world (since 1855). Hermann met again to venture into the high mountains. They visited, sometimes individually, sometimes together, Kashmir, Ladakh and Baltistan. Hermann and Robert went up on the mountain ranges of the Karakoram and the Kuen -lun in Chinese Turkestan. The scientific exploration of the Karakoram and the Kuen -lun are the main results of this journey.
After returning to Rawalpindi in the Punjab, the brothers parted. Hermann traveled through Hindustan and Bengal to Nepal. In April 1857 he left India via Calcutta to meet with Robert in Egypt. They eventually landed on 7 June 1857 in Trieste. Adolf Schlagintweit crossed again in 1857 the Karakoram, was arrested as a spy in Turkestan and executed in August in Kashgar.
The results of these trips consist of 46 volumes observation manuscripts, 38 volumes meteorological observation series, 752 drawings and watercolors and more than 14,000 collectors' items.
After his return to Hermann sat down with his brother Robert in Berlin; then they went to Forchheim on the Jägersburg. Hermann later settled as a member of the Academy of Sciences in Munich.
Hermann Freiherr von Schlagintweit died on January 19, 1882 in Munich.
Works
By Robert of Schlagintweit:
- Results of a scientific mission to India and High -Asia. Vol 1-4, with Atlas. Leipzig ( 1860-66 ) The digital text editions can be accessed via links.
- Travel in India and High Asia. 4 vols Jena ( 1869-80 )