Charles Montagu Doughty

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Charles Montagu Doughty

Charles Montagu Doughty (born August 19, 1843 in Theberton Hall , Suffolk , † January 20, 1926 in Sissinghurst , Kent ) was a British writer and explorer , active as an English scholar, geologist and Bible student.

Life

Doughty studied predominantly natural sciences during his time at the Naval School and later in Cambridge .

In 1871 Doughty made study trips to southern Europe, North Africa and Turkey. In 1876 he traveled with a Muslim caravan of pilgrims from Damascus south to Mada'in Salih . In 1878 he accompanied the butter caravan on to Mecca . His two-year stay in central and northern Arabia brought numerous scientific discoveries. Doughty discovered numerous inscriptions and monuments that became significant for the study of ancient Arab history.

In the same year he returned to England and wrote a monumental work Travels in Arabia Deserta , with 1150 pages of Arabia research. This was the most important and influential travelogue about the Arab world and the desert Bedouins at that time. TE Lawrence ( Lawrence of Arabia ) calls the publication a "Bible of Arabia" and refers to it again and again. This travel work is characterized by keen observation of the geographical , natural history , archaeological and ethnographic conditions. In 1922 he became an honorary member of the British Academy .

After his death in 1926, Doughty was cremated in the London crematorium in Golders Green ; his ashes were scattered in Win 1 of the Cloisters (see tablet 2610 there).

Works

  • Travels in Arabia Deserta (2 volumes, Cambridge 1888) ( digitized I , II )
    • The revelation of Arabia. Arabia Deserta. Paul List Verlag, Leipzig 1937 (translated from the English by Hertha Federmann)
    • German, edited, shortened and translated by Hans-Thomas Gosciniak: Arabia Deserta. Wanderings in the Arabian Desert 1876-1878. With an introduction by Lawrence of Arabia . DuMont, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7701-1045-5 .
  • The Dawn in Britain (1906)
  • Adam Cast Forth (1908)
  • The Cliffs (1909)
  • The Clouds (1912)

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The small encyclopedia , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, volume 1, page 379
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Doughty, Charles Montagu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Theberton Hall , Suffolk
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1926
Place of death Sissinghurst , Kent