Eduard Schlagintweit

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Eduard Schlagintweit. Graphic by Adolf Neumann.
Eduard Schlagintweit
Eduard Schlagintweit's tomb in Bad Kissingen

Eduard Schlagintweit (born March 23, 1831 in Munich , † July 10, 1866 in Hausen ) was a Bavarian officer , scientist and author .

Life

He was the son of the doctor Joseph Schlagintweit (1791-1854) and Rosalie Seidel (1805-1839) and the third of the five Schlagintweit brothers , who were all scientists and explorers. Eduard climbed the Alps twice with Hermann and Adolph during his time as a pupil of the Cadet Corps in 1846 and 1847 . On these trips he gained experience for his later observations in Morocco.

After his training in the cadet corps, Schlagintweit joined the Bavarian Army and was from 1849 first as a sub-lieutenant , later as a lieutenant in the 6th Chevauleger Regiment . Ten years later, with the permission of the Bavarian King, he took part in the Spanish-Moroccan War of 1859/60 at the headquarters of Commander-in-Chief Leopoldo O'Donnell as a first lieutenant , “to collect geographical and ethographic notes at the same time” . For his services he was awarded the Spanish Order of Ferdinand and the Medalla de la Campaña de Africa . In Morocco, he made plaster masks of residents' heads, took measurements and took photos. He took all the documents with him to Germany for further studies.

Schlagintweit later went to England and France , where he wrote his frequently cited work The Spanish-Moroccan War in 1859 and 1860 .

Schlagintweit fell in the German war as a captain in the quartermaster staff and adjutant to the commandant general and lieutenant general Oskar Freiherr von Zoller (1809–1866) in the battle of Kissingen . He was buried on the spot together with four likewise fallen soldiers of the 5th Jäger Battalion in what is today the memorial for the fallen for 1866 opposite the Upper Saline in Hausen (today part of Bad Kissingen ). On November 28, 1866, four months later, King Ludwig II had Captain Schlagintweit's grave shown to him during a visit to Kissingen, despite heavy snowstorms.

Schlagintweit was a member of several learned societies.

Publications (selection)

  • 1. Report on the Spanish Army in Morocco. 1860.
  • The military conditions of the Empire of Morocco. 2nd report. 1860.
  • Military sketches over England and France. in: General military newspaper . 1861.
  • The Spanish-Moroccan War of 1859 and 1860. 3 parts. FA Brockhaus Verlag. Leipzig 1863. ( online edition )
  • État militaire de l'empire du Maroc par Edouard Schlagintweit. 1865.

literature

Web links

Commons : Eduard Schlagintweit  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Brückner (ed.): Annales de glaciologie. Commission Internationale des Glaciers (ed.). Volume 26-27. P. 332 ( excerpt ).
  2. ^ Sheets for literary entertainment. 1866. Vol. 1-2. P. 591. ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Wilhelm Eduard Gottfried Seemann, Berthold Seemann: Bonplandia. German Academy of Natural Scientists (ed.). Volume 8. P. 109. ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Bodo von Dewitz, Reinhard Matz : Silver and Salt. Verlag Edition Braus, Cologne / Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-925835-65-2 , p. 319 ( excerpt ).
  5. ^ Military manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Bavarian War Ministry 1864. p. 104. ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Peter Ziegler: Celebrities on promenade paths. Publisher Ferdinand Schöningh. Würzburg 2004. ISBN 3-87717-809-X , p. 45.
  7. ^ Tomb inscription in Bad Kissingen
personal data
SURNAME Schlagintweit, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehmed Emin Pasha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1866
Place of death Hausen (Bad Kissingen)