Gustav Brühl (Author)

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Gustav Brühl, before 1903

Gustav Brühl (pseudonym: Kara Giorg ; born May 31, 1826 in Herdorf ; † February 16, 1903 in Cincinnati ) was a doctor, poet and archaeologist.

Life

Gustav Brühl's father was Johannes Peter Brühl, royal shift supervisor on Hollertszug , miners' union, postman and innkeeper. In 1844 Brühl graduated from high school in Trier. He studied medicine, philosophy and history in Munich, Halle / Saale and Berlin. In 1848 he passed the exam as a doctor and doctoral student in Berlin. His thirst for adventure and the turmoil of the revolution in Germany in 1848 drew him, together with his wife Magdalene, to America, where he experienced first hand the development of the continent through the great treks to the west and industrialization. He settled in Cincinnati as a doctor, began writing, and engaged in archeology in his spare time . During a subsequent visit to Europe, Brühl trained in laryngology in Vienna and Prague . When he had achieved some prosperity as a doctor, he traveled all over America from Alaska to Mexico to Chile, parts of the Orient and Europe. In Mexico he visited the Mayan temple ruins in Yucatan . He summarized his trips to America in his work Between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego . In the last part of this work, Brühl described the life of Germans in Valparaiso and Santiago de Chile . Numerous seals are the result of his travels.

Work as a writer

Brühl achieved international fame with numerous books, at times with the pseudonym "Kara Giorg", which he used, for example, in his volume of poems, Poesie des Urwaldes , published in 1870 . In his poems he often dealt with the achievements of Germans overseas or with old Indian legends that he wanted to protect from oblivion. In 1869/70 he founded the monthly magazine " Der Deutsche Pionier " and the " Peter Claver Society for the Education of Colored Children " in America. In 1903 the epic - lyrical poem Skanderbeg appeared .

Work as an archaeologist

Brühl participated in the archaeological excavations in Toris, the first Greek city on the Black Sea . His name can still be read in the library of Constanza today.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thilo Stumpf: German doctors as explorers in Latin America from the 19th century to the First World War , dissertation Institute for the history of medicine (today: history and ethics of medicine), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, supervisor Wolfgang U. Eckart , 2000, P. 145.
  2. ^ Title of the society according to Herringshaw`s Library of American Biography 1909, p. 467
personal data
SURNAME Brühl, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giorg, Kara (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American doctor, poet, archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Herdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1903
Place of death Cincinnati