Robert Schlagintweit

Robert Schlagintweit, 1859 by Schlagintweit ( born October 27, 1833 in Munich, † June 6, 1885 in Gießen ) was a German traveler and explorer.

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 Hermann 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.

Life

Robert was the younger brother of Hermann and Adolf Schlagintweit and took with them after high school in 1852 at Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich and the subsequent degree at the University of Munich 's famous trip to India, which led to many important findings on the high mountains of the Himalayas.

Robert initially participated in the geological and meteorological study of the Alps; he contributed to in a work for the New investigations about the physical geography and geology of the Alps ( Leipzig 1854).

After Hermann and Adolf had received the opportunity for a scientific journey to India from Schlagintweit the mediation of Alexander von Humboldt, also Robert took part in this expedition. They went from Bombay initially on two separate paths through the Deccan to Madras, from where Adolf and Robert went into the northwestern mountains of the Himalayas and the high passes and giant glaciers of the western part of the Himalayas explored. He arrived along with Adolf at 7,756 m high Kamet a height of 6,785 m, which was a record amount for that time.

The Winter 1855 1856 he spent with Adolf on the Indian peninsula, and then met with the older Hermann in May 1856 together in cloak of. The brothers then explored the mountains of Central Asia, Kashmir, Ladakh and Baltistan. Along with Hermann Robert went over the Karakorum Mountains and the Kuen -lun in Chinese Turkestan. Here were the main findings of the three-year research expedition. After returning they separated again and Robert went through the valley of the Indus, and sailed in the spring of 1857 to Egypt a. Here Hermann arrived in the summer and together they traveled back to Europe ( June 7, 1857 Arrival in Trieste ).

Among the numerous research results, see Article Hermann von Schlagintweit.

King Maximilian II brought Robert and Hermann von Schlagintweit in the hereditary nobility. Robert was in 1864 the first professor of geography in Giessen, toured in 1869 and 1880, the United States from New York to San Francisco.

Robert of Schlagintweit died on June 6, 1885 in Giessen, where he is buried in the Old Cemetery.

Effect

The Russian Geographical Society built for Adolf von Schlagintweit at the point of his death, an obelisk, which has been destroyed as a result of a flood.

Works

  • The Pacific Railroad in North America. Leipzig ( 1870)
  • California. Leipzig ( 1871)
  • The Mormons. Leipzig ( 1874)
  • The prairies of the American West. Leipzig ( 1876)
  • Robert publish Schlagintweits 1000 lectures. (1880 )
  • The American railroad facilities. Cologne ( 1881)
  • The Santa Fe and Südpacificbahn in North America. Cologne ( 1884)
  • The railway between the cities of New York and Mexico. Weimar ( 1885)
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