Ferdinand Blumentritt

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Ferdinand Blumentritt
Map of the Philippines, designed by Ferdinand Blumentritt, edited and autographed by Bruno Domann

Ferdinand Blumentritt (born September 10, 1853 in Prague , † September 20, 1913 in Leitmeritz , Bohemia ) was an Austrian ethnographer , teacher and high school director in Leitmeritz.

Ferdinand Blumentritt was one of the best experts on the Philippines during his lifetime , although he never set foot on it. A street and a light rail station in Manila are named after him. Blumentritt was friends with the Filipino national hero José Rizal .

Works

  • The "Tratado Anonimo" about the Cumuneros uprising against King Carl V. Leitmeritz in 1878.
  • The Chinese in the Philippines. Leitmeritz 1879.
  • The July 1880 earthquake in the Philippines. 1880.
  • Dutch attacks on the Philippines in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. Leitmeritz 1880.
  • The gold discovery sites in the Philippines and their exploitation. 1881.
  • An attempt at an ethnography of the Philippines. Gotha 1882.
  • Vocabulary of individual expressions and expressions peculiar to the Spanish of the Philippine Islands. Leitmeritz 1882–1885.
  • The linguistic areas of Europe at the end of the Middle Ages, compared with the conditions of the present. Prague 1883.
  • El noli me tangere de Rizal. Barcelona 1889.
  • JC Labhart-Lutz. An obituary. Leitmeritz 1889.
  • Some things about Juan Valera. Leitmeritz 1894.
  • Diccionario mitologico de Filipinas. Madrid 1895.
  • The imperial image. Leitmeritz 1899.
  • America and the Philippines. 1900.
  • The Philippines. A clear presentation of the ethnographic and historical-political conditions of the archipelago. Hamburg 1900.
  • Some manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries. Leitmeritz 1904.
  • Alphabetical register of school leaving examination regulations. Leitmeritz 1909.
  • Alphabetical index of the most common watercolors. Leitmeritz 1910.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Blumentritt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The revolutionary from Leitmeritz" - Professor Ferdinand Blumentritt. Apostle of the Philippines or "Czech Patriot"?
personal data
SURNAME Blumentritt, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ethnographer, teacher and high school director in Leitmeritz
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1913
Place of death Leitmeritz , Bohemia