George Kennan
George Kennan (born February 16, 1845 in Norwalk , Ohio , † May 10, 1924 in Medina , New York ) was an American explorer.
Life
Kennan worked his way up from a poor background to become a senior telegraph officer in Cincinnati and made his first research trip to Kamchatka in 1864 .
From 1865 to 1868 he took part in the American cable expedition to Alaska and Siberia and on his return published the ethnographically interesting book: Tent life in Siberia (1870; German: Zeltleben in Sibirien , Berlin 1890-1892).
Commissioned by Century Magazine , he carried out a research trip to southeast Russia from 1870–1871 , where he sailed the lower Volga and the Caspian Sea , crossed the Caucasus three times and devoted a long time to the exploration of Dagestan .
From 1885–1886 he traveled with the painter George Albert Frost to north-eastern Russia and Siberia, in particular to get to know the Russian banishment system thoroughly. On this journey he covered a distance of over 15,000 miles , visiting almost all the prison stations and mines between the Urals and the sources of the Amur and the wildest parts of the Russian Altai . His accounts of his last trips, first published in Century Magazine 1889–1890, caused a sensation and appeared in a German translation by Kirchner under the title: Sibirien (Berlin 1890, 3 parts). In May 1902 he traveled to Martinique on behalf of Outlook Magazine to report on the outbreak of the Montagne Pelée. His book The Tragedy of Pelee was published that same year.
Kennan was a founding member of the National Geographic Society on January 13, 1888 . In 1898 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Works
- Tent Life in Siberia 'in Project Gutenberg ( currently not generally available for users from Germany ) , 1870
- Siberia and the Exile System , 1891 ; Reprint 2003 ISBN 0-89875-902-1 , online
- The Tragedy of Pelee , 1902, reprinted 2002, ISBN 1-59016-859-3
German editions:
- Tent life in Siberia and adventure among the Korjäks and other tribes in Kamchatka and North Asia. German by E. Kirchner. Berlin, Siegfried Cronbach 1890.
- Siberia! German by E. Kirchner. Berlin, Siegfried Cronbach 1890ff
- ... and the Tsar is Far Siberia 1885 German by Ingeborg Gronke, Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1975
- as translator
- Honoré de Balzac : Folk-Tales of Napoleon in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available for users from Germany )
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about George Kennan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by George Kennan in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Works by George Kennan in Project Gutenberg ( currently usually not available for users from Germany )
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: George Kennan. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 7, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kennan, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Norwalk (Ohio) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1924 |
| Place of death | Medina (New York) |