Edward von Callot

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Eduard Ferdinand Freiherr von Callot (born January 1, 1793 in Vienna , † May 1, 1862 ibid) was an Austrian officer and alleged traveler to Africa.

family

Eduard von Callot was the son of the officer Johann Freiherr von Callot (1763-1809) and Marie Magdalene Wagmuth (1774-1847), his brother was Carl Freiherr von Callot (born May 16, 1806). In 1821 he married Marie Freiin von Buol († 1824).

Life

Eduard von Callot graduated from the Theresian Academy from 1802 to 1805 . He joined the Austrian army in 1809 and took part in the Napoleonic Wars as a lieutenant in a hunter battalion. In 1816 he moved as a first lieutenant from the 8th Jäger Battalion to Infantry Regiment No. 29 and left the military in 1820.

There is evidence that he then took part in the Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) as an officer and then entered the service of Viceroy Mehmed Ali in Egypt.

According to his own statements, he went to Egypt on January 17, 1831, where he became colonel of a cavalry regiment. On behalf of the viceroy, he allegedly carried out spy trips to the Sinai, Palestine and Syria as far as the Taurus Mountains. When he returned to Cairo via Cyprus, he had been appointed as his envoy to the Ethiopian imperial court . He traveled up the Nile, helped establish Khartoum at the confluence of the White and Blue Nile , and then traveled on to Ethiopia. Then he crossed to Arabia, where he disguised as a Muslim visited Mecca and Medina. He then returned to Egypt and began his return journey to Europe on December 12, 1831. In 1854/55 he published his alleged memories of this trip; all of the above information is based solely on it.

However, due to the incredibly short travel time and inconsistencies in the travel descriptions, Michael H. Zach came to the conclusion that Callot's descriptions are highly untrustworthy and that he was probably never in Sudan, but that his "memories" were partly literally based on older reports by Frédéric Cailliaud and Eduard Rüppell .

He then worked as a geometer in Moravia and for the Austrian Northern Railway .

During the March Revolution in Vienna in 1848 , he sided with the rebels. He wrote pamphlets and newspaper articles and in September 1848 a liberal poem based on the Marseillaise . After the uprising was put down, he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, the occupation given is "railway official". In 1850 he was pardoned, and his occupation is “Geometer der Nordbahn”. In 1859/60 he emerged with writings on the Italian War of 1859 .

Publications

  • The Orient and Europe. Memories and travel pictures from land and sea . 10 parts, Kollmann, Leipzig 1854/55 ( digitized parts 1–6 ).
    • New edition of Eduard Freiherrn von Callot's journey through Kusch and Habesch. Memories and travel pictures . Edited by Friedrich J. Bieber . In: Leo Frobenius, Friedrich J. Bieber: To the glory of the Sudans . Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1923, pp. 111-314.
    • New edition trips to Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia . 2 volumes (= collection of travel descriptions to Africa by Austrian explorers, volume 7). Kainbacher, Baden near Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-9501302-8-7 ; therein pp. V – XVI Michael H. Zach: Eduard Ferdinand Freiherr von Callot - Adventurer or Fantast? .
  • [Eduard Freiherr von C ... ..] Italy and the map of Europe. German answer to La Guerronnière's Napoleon III. and Italy and E. de Girardin's Europe in 1860 . Kollmann, Leipzig 1859 ( digitized version ).
  • [anonymous] The new map of France and upper Italy in 1860. Issue no. I . Kollmann, Leipzig 1859.
  • The new map of France and Upper Italy. Issue No. II. Color of the future boundaries. Kollmann, Leipzig 1859.
  • The new map of France and Upper Italy. Edition No III. Hand map for the operational plan against France and Piedmont . Kollmann, Leipzig 1859.
  • [anonymous] Napoleon III. the man of the greatest assassinations of the nineteenth century by a conservative . Hammer, Cologne 1859 (printed by Oswald Kollmann, Leipzig) ( digitized ).
  • [E. v. C.] German rhymes against foreign inconsistencies . No. 1-5. Kollmann, Leipzig 1859 ( digitized version ).
  • Time rhymes on the current world situation . No. 1-5. Kollmann, Leipzig 1859 ( digitized version ).
  • Strategic sketch for an operational plan and the march dispositions in a war against France and Piedmont . Kollmann, Leipzig 1859 ( digitized version ).
  • Eduard Freiherr von C *****: Napoleon the Third and Europe . Kollmann, Leipzig 1860 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Michael H. Zach: Eduard Ferdinand Freiherr von Callot. A pioneer of Sudan archeology? Corrections to GM 79, 83 and 85 . In: Göttinger Miszellen 213, 2007, pp. 105–110.
  • Michael H. Zach: Meroe in the Austrian travel literature of the 19th century . In: Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologische Gesellschaft zu Berlin 26, 2015, pp. 277–292, here pp. 280–282 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses 1869 , p. 120.
  2. ↑ Album of the Kaiser. royal Theresianums (1746-1880). Directory of all members of the Imperial and Royal Theresian Academy . Vienna 1880, p. 94 No. 357 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Rudolf von Hödl: History of the k. and k. Infantry Regiment No. 29 for everlasting times . Temesvar 1906, p. 588.
  4. ↑ Prager Abend-Blatt No. 5, January 19, 1849, p. 95.
  5. ↑ Schematism of the Margraviate of Moravia and the Duchy of Silesia 1837, p. 39.
  6. ↑ Prager Abend-Blatt No. 5, January 19, 1849, p. 95.
  7. ^ To the valiant Austrians [Vienna 1848, [1] ]; Polonia a dream [Vienna 1848, [2] ].
  8. ↑ fellow citizens! . In: Constitution No. 5, March 27, 1848, pp. 35-37; A dream in the marshland . In: Allgemeine Straßen-Zeitung. Wiener-Tagblatt für das Volk No. 16, June 21, 1848, p. 63; An instruction about street and barricade fighting, regarding the defense in an attack on Vienna . In: National-Zeitung No. 64, October 5, 1848, pp. 253-254.
  9. ^ Wolfgang Häusler: Marseillaise, cat music and fox song as a means of social and political protest in the Viennese revolution of 1848 . In: Barara Boisits (Ed.): Music and Revolution. The production of identity and space through music in Central Europe 1848/49 . Hollitzer, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99012-127-6 , p. 37ff.
  10. ↑ German newspaper from Böhmen No. 19, January 20, 1849, p. 148; Salzburger constitutionelle Zeitung No. 20, January 23, 1849, p. 88.
  11. ^ Foreigners-Blatt 4, No. 179, July 30, 1850, p. 1.
  12. ↑ Hans Rosenberg: The national political journalism of Germany from the entry of the new era in Prussia to the outbreak of the German war. A critical bibliography . Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1935, p. 28 No. 39.
  13. ↑ Hans Rosenberg: The national political journalism of Germany from the entry of the new era in Prussia to the outbreak of the German war. A critical bibliography . Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1935, pp. 50–51, No. 77.
  14. ↑ Hans Rosenberg: The national political journalism of Germany from the entry of the new era in Prussia to the outbreak of the German war. A critical bibliography . Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1935, p. 39 No. 55; Karl Klaus Walther: The German-language publishing house production by Pierre Marteau / Peter Hammer, Cologne. To the history of a fictitious imprint . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1983, No. 322.
personal data
SURNAME Callot, Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Callot, Eduard Ferdinand Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1862
Place of death Vienna