Carl Wilhelm Schnars

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Carl Wilhelm Schnars , also Karl Wilhelm Schnars (born November 13, 1806 in Hamburg , † May 20, 1879 in Baden-Baden ) was a German doctor , explorer , archaeologist , journalist and author who opened up the Black Forest for modern tourism. His Black Forest Guide appeared in almost 100 editions by 1928.

Life

Freiburg im Breisgau, photography by Gottlieb Theodor Hase , for the 2nd edition of the Black Forest Guide from 1868
A journey through the Neapolitan province of Basilicata and the surrounding areas , 1857

Carl Wilhelm Schnars was born on November 13, 1806 in Hamburg as the son of the sugar broker Johann Christopher Wilhelm Schnars (1782–1866) and his wife Johanna Sophia Friederike, née Wichers (1781–1846). After the Matura examination at the Hamburg Johanneum 1826 studied Carl Wilhelm Schnars Medicine and Surgery at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg . He completed his studies in 1829 at the University of Göttingen with a doctorate. Carl Wilhelm Schnars first settled in Hamburg as a general practitioner and surgeon, then as a hospital doctor. From a marriage with Louise Mutzenbecher (1809-1891), who divorced after seven years in 1840, had three children. Free from family ties, Schnars traveled to the upper reaches of the Nile in October 1840 as a correspondent for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung about Asia Minor , Egypt and Nubia . After this trip to the Orient, ailing, he settled in Naples .

In the 1840s Schnars practiced there as a doctor, took part in excavations, became a member of the Accademia Pontaniana , the botanical section of the Italian Society for Naturalists and Doctors in Naples and the Instituto Archeologico in Rome. In addition, he remained a correspondent for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung and the Hamburger Nachrichten . Not entirely uninvolved due to the turmoil in Naples in 1848 , Schnars moved to Constance and became an honorary member of the Antiquarian Society in Zurich in 1849 . From his changing residences in Constance, Freiburg, Heidelberg and Lindau, he appeared in 1856 as an author of travel guides and travel writer. Beginning in 1856 with a description of Lake Constance and its surroundings, followed in 1859 a travelogue about the Italian Basilicata after the earthquake of 1857. Schnars achieved his breakthrough with the Black Forest Guide first published in Heidelberg and Freiburg in 1865, a commission for the Badischer Schwarzwaldverein founded in 1864 . He became a pioneer of modern Black Forest tourism, to which he systematically opened up even the most remote corners with his multi-day tour recommendations. The second edition of his Black Forest Guide in the Wagner'schen Buchhandlung in Freiburg is an innovation. In addition to two panorama maps with views of Belchen and Feldberg , the edition was illustrated with three original photographs by the Freiburg photographer Gottlieb Theodor Hase on two panels. In Freiburg in 1869 Schnars prepared for a trip to Mexico, which he was unable to take. A stay in Turin followed . On behalf of the Grand Duke , Schnars wrote a manual on the Black Forest Railway from Offenburg to Singen in 1874 . Carl Wilhelm Schnars died after a short illness on May 20, 1879 in his retirement home in Baden-Baden .

Others

Julius Alexander Schnars was his brother. Hugo Schnars-Alquist was his nephew.

Fonts (selection)

  • Reform wishes , in: Reform, Neapel, No. 13 of March 20, 1848, p. 50
  • Lake Constance and its surroundings: in three departments , Cotta Stuttgart, 1856
  • A journey through the Neapolitan province of Basilicata and the neighboring regions: taking into account the most recent earthquake of December 16-17, 1857 , Scheitlin and Zollikofer, St. Gallen, 1859
  • Guide through the Black Forest with four maps and a panorama of the Feldberg , Diernfellner'sche Universitätsbuchhandlung, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1868
  • The Baden Black Forest Railway from Offenburg via Triberg to Singen (Constanz, Schaffhausen and Sigmaringen) - manual for travelers with details of the structural conditions of the railway according to official reports , Emmerling, Heidelberg, 1874
  • The northern Black Forest: Baden Baden after the game was canceled , Winter, Heidelberg, 1876
  • Latest Black Forest Guide , Winter, Heidelberg, 1876 9th revised edition, Heidelberg 1891

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Schnars , in: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present: Pauli-Schoff, Perthes, 1873, p. 626
  • Karl Wilhelm Schnars , in: Friedrich von Weech, Albert Krieger: Badische Biographieen, G. Braun, Karlsruhe, 1881, p. 144

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flora or general botanical newspaper, Volume 29, 1846, p. 562.
  2. ^ Karl Schellhass: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries, E. Loescher & Company, 2004, p. 337.
  3. ^ Anton Largiadèr: Hundred Years of Antiquarian Society in Zurich, 1832–1932, Antiquarian Society, Zurich, 1932, p. 251.
  4. ^ Morgenblatt für educated estates - educated readers, 1807 - 1865, KG Sauer, 2000, p. 421
  5. ↑ Schau-ins-Land: Annual booklet of the Breisgau-Geschichtsverein Schauinsland, No. 105, 1986, p. 104
  6. ↑ see Bernhard Koerner: German gender book, Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien. Volume 21. Starke, Görlitz 1912, pp. 404, 405 and 407
personal data
SURNAME Schnars, Carl Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schnars, Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, explorer, archaeologist, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1879
Place of death Baden-Baden