Eugene Schuyler

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The American Consul General Eugen Schuyler in Constantinople
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"Map of the Khanates of Bukhara, Khiva, and Khokand and Part of Russian Turkistan" by Eugen Schuyler, 1875.
Turkestan around 1900

Eugene Schuyler (born February 26, 1840 in Ithaca , New York , † July 16, 1890 in Venice , Italy ) was an American writer , explorer and diplomat .

Career

Eugene Schuyler was the son of the businessman, writer and politician George W. Schuyler (1810-1888). From 1855 to 1861 he studied languages, literature and philosophy at Yale College . In 1863, he also graduated in law at Columbia Law School with a diploma. In 1864 he applied for the diplomatic service in the State Department of the United States , from which he was appointed consul in Moscow in 1867 after a three-year waiting period . There he made friends with Lev Tolstoy , whose novella The Cossacks he translated into English. Schuyler later published his memoirs of Count Leo Tolstoy in the USA .

After a short time as consul in Reval , Schuyler took over the post of embassy secretary in Saint Petersburg from 1870 to 1876 . From 1873 he combined this task with extensive research trips to Central Asia, about which he wrote several books. From 1876 to 1878 Schuyler was Consul General in Constantinople , from 1878 to 1879 Consul in Birmingham and from 1879 to 1880 Consul General in Rome . He lived in Bucharest from 1880 to 1882 before being appointed American envoy for Romania , Serbia and Greece in July 1882 and moving to Athens for two years . In 1884 he returned to his hometown and took a teaching position at Cornell University . In 1889 Schuyler was appointed consul general in Cairo . A year later he fell ill with malaria in Egypt and died shortly afterwards in Venice .

Mount Schuyler in Graham Land in Antarctica has been named after him since 2010 .

Fonts

He is the author of an important travel book about Central Asia: to Russian Turkistan , Kokand , Bukhara and Kuldscha , a biography of Peter the Great and the already mentioned valuable memories of the Russian writer and Count Leo Tolstoy, whom he had met personally. He translated the novel Fathers and Sons of Turgenev into English.

Works (selection)

  • Turkestan, Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Kokand, Bukarha and Kuldja , London and New York, 1876, two volumes. Reprinted in an abridged version in 1966. VOL. I VOL. II (engl.)
  • Memories of Count Leo Tolstoy ( full text online in the Gutenberg project)
  • Peter the Great: Emperor of Russia; a study of historical biography (engl.)
  • (Transl.) Turgenev: Fathers and Sons (Engl.)
  • Schuyler, Eugene (1901), Selected Essays, with a Memoir by Evelyn Schuyler, New York: Scribner ( Online , Engl.)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Also translated into German.

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personal data
SURNAME Schuyler, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, explorer, and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Ithaca , New York
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1890
Place of death Venice , Italy