Eduard von Nolde

Eduard Nolde

Baron Eduard von Nolde (born April 16, 1849 in Kaletten ( Kalēti ) (near Libau ), † March 11, 1895 in London ) was a German-Baltic adventurer and traveler.

Life

His parents were the manor owners of Courland, Ferdinand von Nolde (1812–1890) and Henriette Zismer (1816–1888). After school, Nolde joined the Life Guard Uhlan Regiment in Warsaw in 1870 , but left it after a year and then took part in the Third Carlist War as a volunteer until 1876 . After a short stay in South America , he entered the Russian civil service in 1879 . From 1888 he began to travel to the Orient and Africa .

Nolde's travel route through Central Arabia, Kurdistan and Armenia 1893

On January 1, 1893, he set out from Damascus on his journey to Inner Arabia . On a slightly more easterly route than his predecessors Anne Blunt (1837–1917), Charles Huber (1837–1884) and Julius Euting (1839–1913), he crossed the Nefud desert to Hail and moved via Unaizah to a camp of the then Emir of Jebel Shammar , Muhammad bin Abdullah Al Raschid. He moved to Mesopotamia on the Sobeideh Strait and came to Trebizond via Baghdad , Mosul , Bitlis and Erzerum . Before Nolde committed suicide a few days later on March 11, 1895 in London, he asked Richard Andree to take care of the publication of his travelogue . Karl May (1842–1912) was one of the readers of this report: his desert traveler from “Am Jenseits” (1899) and Sheik Jamir from the Hamawand Kurds from “In the kingdom of the silver lion” (Part II: “At the rubble of Babylon ”, 1898) come from Nolde's travelogue.

Fonts

Journey to Inner Arabia, Kurdistan and Armenia in 1892 . Friedrich Vieweg and son, Braunschweig 1895. Digitized: [1] . Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2004, ISBN 3-487-12623-0 .
Through Armenia and Kurdistan. With champagne on caravan paths 1892 . Edited by Helmut Arndt. Edition Erdmann, Lenningen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86503-046-7 .

Web links

Literature by and about Eduard von Nolde in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Oskar Stavenhagen (arrangement): Genealogical Handbook of the Courland Knighthood , Volume 1, Publishing House for Family Research and Heraldry CA Starke, Görlitz, undated [1930], p. 442.

personal data
SURNAME	Nolde, Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nolde, Eduard Baron von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic adventurer and traveler
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kalēti
DATE OF DEATH	March 11, 1895
Place of death	London

[1] Oskar Stavenhagen (arrangement): Genealogical Handbook of the Courland Knighthood , Volume 1, Publishing House for Family Research and Heraldry CA Starke, Görlitz, undated [1930], p. 442.