Carl Passavant
Carl Passavant (born May 14, 1854 in Basel , † September 22, 1887 in Honolulu ) was a Swiss physician.
Life
He was the fourth of six children of the banker Emanuel Passavant (1817–1879) from the bank Passavant & Cie. and his wife Adèle, née Bachofen (1823–1883), who had been married to him since 1842. His mother was the sister of the Swiss art historian Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815–1887).
From 1871 to 1873 he studied natural sciences at the University of Basel , from 1873 to 1874 architecture at the Zurich Polytechnic and from 1874 to 1881 medicine at the Universities of Basel and Tübingen . He completed his medical studies in Basel with a doctorate as Dr. med. from.
In 1877 Passavant became a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen and Tigurinia Zurich .
After completing his preparatory training as an explorer from 1881 to 1882 Berlin, Carl Passavant was able to travel to West and Central Africa in 1883 and a second time in 1884 thanks to his inherited fortune. On the Ogowe River in what is now Gabon, he advanced deep into the then largely unknown interior of the African continent. After his second embarkation in February 1884 to West Africa, this time accompanied by the zoologist Trautgott Pauli (1856–1931), Carl fell seriously ill in early 1885 and started his journey home in June 1885. In Europe he didn't really recover. On the advice of his doctor, he traveled to Honolulu in July 1887, where he died.
Carl was the older brother of Georges Passavant (1862–1952) banker and colonel, who married Maria Fichter (* 1863) in 1889. The wealthy Georges Passavant also undertook a world tour from 1888 to 1889, which took him to North America, Japan, China, Java, Thailand and India.
Both brothers were very interested in photography and owned their own photographic equipment, but preferred to purchase and collect footage from local photographers along the way. In Africa these were African traveling photographers, in Chinese cities there had been numerous photo studios since the 1860s.
The photographic estate of both brothers was deposited in the Museum der Kulturen in Basel for many years . The two great founding figures of this museum in Basel were their cousins Fritz Sarasin and Paul Sarasin , inspired by their first trip to Ceylon. A small part of the originals can be found in an exhibition " The foreign in view " of the museum. About the African part is in the Christoph Merian Verlag, 2005 an illustrated book by Jörg Schneider with the title “ Photo fever, pictures from West and Central Africa. The Travels of Carl Passavant 1883–1885 ”was published.
literature
- Jürg Schneider, Ute Röschenthaler, Bernhard Gardi: Photo fever: Images from West and Central Africa; the travels of Carl Passavant 1883–1885 . Merian, Basel 2005, ISBN 978-3-85616-251-1 .
Web links
- Thomas Schibler: Passavant, Carl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Carl Passavant's estate in the Basel University Library
- Special exhibition 2006 in the Basel Museum of Cultures
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 127 , 365
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 144 , 149
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Passavant, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1887 |
| Place of death | Honolulu |