Bernhard Schwarz (Africa explorer)

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Bernhard Wilhelm Schwarz (born August 12, 1844 in Reinsdorf near Greiz ; †  February 8, 1901 in Wiesbaden ) was a German pastor and Africa explorer .

Schwarz became pastor in Freiberg in Saxony in 1876 , where, after traveling all over Europe and North Africa, he also gave lectures on geography at the Bergakademie from 1880 onwards .

On behalf of the Foreign Office , he joined in 1885 to head an expedition (four German, including Fritz Angerer and Georg von Prittwitz and Gaffron , who on behalf of Hagenbeck collected ethnographic objects, as well as 35 local porters) to explore the hinterland of Cameroon , by Locals in Basaramiland , 300 km from the coast, were forced to turn back. The aim of the expedition was to secure the hinterland as part of the German colony of Cameroon . In 1888, Schwarz led a gold prospecting expedition from Cape Town to Damaraland . He advocated a German- Boer collaboration.

In 1890, Bernhard Schwarz again took over a pastorate in Gefrees / Upper Franconia , but died on February 4, 1901 in Wiesbaden.

Fonts

  • Jacob Wimpheling, the grandfather of the German school system . Gotha (1875)
  • Algeria after 50 years of French rule . Leipzig (1881)
  • Spring trips through the health resorts of the Riviera . Leipzig (1887)
  • Montenegro . Leipzig (1888) ( digital copy from the holdings of the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies )
  • With the brothers in northern Russia . Osnabrück (1887)
  • From German exile in the Scythenland: Experiences from Dobruja . Leipzig (1888)
  • Across Bithynia . Berlin (1889)
  • Cameroon . Leipzig (1886)
  • In the German gold country . Berlin (1889)
  • From the east . Chemnitz (1876)
  • Mimbo and Mimba: a missionary novel from Cameroon . Leipzig (1888)
  • Nachtigal's grave: a novel from the life of the negro . Leipzig (1890)
  • From all kinds of countries and people . Courtyard (1895)
  • Tourist newspaper for northern Bavaria (publisher)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographies of Namibian Personalities
  2. ↑ a b Albert Gouaffo: knowledge and cultural transfer in the colonial context: the case of Cameroon-Germany (1884-1919). Königshausen & Neumann, 2007, p. 82
  3. ↑ Markus Lang: The German-Boer “Colonial Partnership” in Southern Africa until the Boer War (1899–1902), 1999
personal data
SURNAME Schwarz, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarz, Bernhard Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and Africa explorer
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Reinsdorf near Greiz
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1901
Place of death Wiesbaden