Adolf Schlagintweit

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Adolf Schlagintweit

Adolf Schlagintweit (born January 9, 1829 in Munich , † August 26, 1857 in Kaschgar ) was a German traveler and explorer .

Life

The son of Joseph Schlagintweit graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1847 . He then went to the University of Landshut , where he with the dissertation origine De Cataractarum to Dr. med. received his doctorate .

Schlagintweit published together with his older brother Hermann the joint research results on meteorological and geological observations in the Alps ( Investigations on the physical geography of the Alps , Leipzig 1850). He then visited England and Scotland with his brother before embarking on further investigations into the Alps. Here they barely failed on the first ascent of the Dufourspitze , the highest peak of Monte Rosa .

Robert, Adolf and Hermann Schlagintweit

Schlagintweit completed his habilitation at the University of Munich with the geological survey of the Bavarian Alps , which he continued in 1852 and 1853. Together with his brother Hermann he published the results in New Studies on the Physical Geography and the Geology of the Alps (Leipzig 1854).

The brothers received through the mediation of Alexander von Humboldt an order of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm IV. And the British East India Company for further scientific exploration of India , where they also her younger brother Robert accompanied. Via Bombay one traveled through the Deccan to Madras . Adolf and Robert then went to the north-western provinces and since April 1855 they have been researching the high mountain world of the Himalayas , especially the high passes and giant glaciers of the western part. On the 7,756 m high Kamet they climbed an altitude of 6,785 m, which was an altitude record for their time.

They spent the winter of 1855 to 1856 doing research on the Indian peninsula and met Hermann again in May at Shimla . All three now turned to High Asia, where they went individually and together to Kashmir , Ladakh and Baltistan .

In the summer of 1857, Adolf Schlagintweit traveled again to the highlands north of the Himalayas, crossed the Kunlun more to the east than his brothers the year before and then descended to Turkestan . He was captured near Kashgar and beheaded as an alleged Chinese spy on August 26, 1857 without trial or hearing at the court of Hodschas Wali Khan.

tomb

Grave of Adolf Schlagintweit on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The grave of Adolf Schlagintweit is located in the old southern cemetery in Munich (grave field 2 - row 7 - place 16/17) location . His father Joseph Schlagintweit and his brother Hermann Schlagintweit are also lying in the grave .

exhibition

Over the Himalayas. The Schlagintweit brothers' expedition to India and Central Asia. Exhibition in the Alpine Museum of the German Alpine Club in Munich. From March 19, 2015 to January 10, 2016.

Honors

The plant genera Schlagintweitia Griseb. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and Schlagintweitiella Ulbr. from the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) are named after the three brothers Adolf Schlagintweit, Hermann von Schlagintweit and Robert von Schlagintweit .

literature

  • Hermann von Schlagintweit, Robert von Schlagintweit: Official reports on the last trips and the death of Adolph Schlagintweit . Berlin 1859 ( digitized version ).
  • Emil Schlagintweit :  Schlagintweit . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 336-348. (Family item)
  • Helmut Mayr:  Schlagintweit, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 24 f. ( Digitized version ). (only genealogical information, actual article text in the online NDB under Schlagintweit, Emil )
  • Michael Heim: From Tegernsee to where my heart assaults. The Schlagintweit brothers and their journey to a 'strange star on earth'. In: Tegernseer Tal, issue 158 (2013), pp. 22-27.
  • Hermann Kreutzmann: Death and oblivion in Kaschgar. Adolph Schlagintweit's tragic end and the fate of his monument. In: Tegernseer Tal, issue 162 (2015), pp. 38–41.
  • Moritz von Brescius, Friederike Kaiser and Stephanie Kleidt (eds.): About the Himalaya. The Schlagintweit brothers' expedition to India and Central Asia from 1854 to 1858. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: Böhlau 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22493-6 .
  • Wolfgang Heichel: Adolph Schlagintweit - A life for science, Kamenz 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049682-0 .

Web links

Wikisource: Adolph Schlagintweit  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 4, p. 41.
  2. ↑ Across the Himalayas. The Schlagintweit brothers' expedition to India and Central Asia from 1854 to 1858. In: alpenverein.de. German Alpine Association e. V., accessed on May 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schlagintweit, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German traveler and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1857
Place of death Kashgar , Turkestan