Georg von Meyendorff (explorer)
Georg von Meyendorff , fully Baron Georg Wolter Konrad von Meyendorff , Russian Егор Казимирович Мейендорф , Yegor Kasimirowitsch Meiendorf (born June 10 . Jul / 21st June 1795 greg. On small-Roop, Livonia , today Municipality Straupe , Latvia ; † 12th October 1863 in Würzburg ) was a German-Baltic, Russian officer and explorer.
Live and act
Meyendorff came from the Livonian branch of the German-Baltic noble family von Meyendorff and was the son of Baron Kasimir von Meyendorff and his wife Anna Katharina, nee. from Vegesack . Together with his brothers Kasimir (1794–1854) and Peter , he first attended the Lycee Impériale in Metz, founded by Napoleon Bonaparte . He entered Russian military service and took part in the battles against Napoleon as a sub-lieutenant. On September 6, 1813 he was awarded the order Pour le Mérite .
In 1819 he enrolled at the University of Göttingen , but went back to Russia the following year to take part in the expedition from Orenburg to Bukhara sent by the tsar . The expedition made its way through the steppe, previously rarely trodden by a European, which extends westward from the Aral Sea to the shores of the Caspian Sea . As Alexander von Humboldt later pointed out, an important result of the expedition was a corrected cartography of the eastern shore of the Aral Sea. From Kungrad to Khiwa they followed the course of the Amu Darya . His companions on this trip were the naturalists Eduard Friedrich Eversmann and Christian Heinrich Pander ; all three later published their scientific research and discoveries. Meyendorff's own description first appeared in French in Paris in 1826, edited by Pierre Amédée Jaubert , and a German edition was published in Jena that same year.
In 1824 he was sent on an expedition to Kyakhta to explore trade links with China , and on the way back toured Astrakhan and the Caucasus .
From 1828 to 1835 conductor of the imperial debt repayment commission. From 1837 to 1842 he was the Livonian district administrator. From 1854 he was a member of the board of the Imperial Geographical Society.
Works
- Voyage d'Orenbourg à Boukhara fait en 1820. Paris: Dondey-Dupré 1826 digitized
- German: Journey from Orenburg to Bukhara in 1820. Jena: Bran 1826
literature
- Stefan Hartmann: Meyendorff, Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 288 f. ( Digitized version ). (Mention in the article about his brother)
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Georg von Meyendorff. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Web links
- Erik Amburger database at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
- Wikisource Russian legation trip to Bochara , from the journal “The Abroad” 1828.
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the family, see Genealogical Handbook of the Livonian Knighthood Volume 1, Görlitz 1919 digital copy, pp. 503-532
- ^ Karl Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour Le Mérite: 1740-1918. (The Knights of the Order Pour Le Mérite 1) Biblio 1998 ISBN 9783764824730 , p. 247
- ↑ Alexander von Humboldt : Central Asia: Studies on the mountain ranges and the comparative climatology. Volume I / 2 Berlin Klemann 1844, p. 269
- ^ Obituary, in Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen 11 (1865) p. 28f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyendorff, Georg von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyendorff, Baron Georg Wolter Konrad von (full name); Meiendorf, Yegor Kasimirowitsch; Мейендорф, Егор Казимирович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic, Russian officer and explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klein-Roop, Livonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1863 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |