Hermann Ehrenberg

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Herman Ehrenberg

Hermann Vollrath Ehrenberg (born October 17, 1816 in Steuden , † October 9, 1866 near Palm Springs (California) ; English spelling: Herman Ehrenberg ( en )) was a German emigrant , cartographer , engineer and author . Ehrenberg made the first map of the territory of the Gadsden Purchase .

origin

Hermann Ehrenberg grew up in Steuden (Kingdom of Prussia) as the son of Johann Friedrich and Sophie Ehrenberg. The couple had two other sons: Emil and Friedrich. The father worked as an innkeeper.

Emigration to the USA

After the Frankfurt Wachensturm , Ehrenberg was persecuted as a fraternity (he probably belonged to the Jena fraternity from 1833 ). When he was not even 18, he reached New York on August 11, 1834 , where he had come with the ship Ludwig from Bremen . He stayed in town for a year, then went to St. Louis and on to New Orleans by Mississippi steamer . There he was enlisted on October 13, 1835 for the Texan War of Independence of Mexico as a soldier and came to the first company of the New Orleans Grays ( en ).

Ehrenberg later recorded what happened during the campaign in his book. In 1836 he received a layoff of $ 130. He returned to New Orleans , where he worked on his war memoirs and improved his English.

Return to Germany

Ehrenberg returned to Germany. He is said to have studied mining in Freiburg im Breisgau .

He lived in Halle (Saale) and completed his book there, which was published in 1843 with the title Texas and its Revolution . A year later, another issue as the fight for freedom in Texas in 1836 [The Struggle for Freedom in Texas in the Year 1836]. He also offered English lessons at the University of Halle.

Back to the USA

In the period from 1844 to 1845 Ehrenberg went back to the USA. He designed the blueprint for the Portland, Oregon prison . He sailed to Honolulu , where he worked for the city administration for a few months and made a city map. There followed changing professional positions. He worked as an engineer in gold and silver mines in Arizona and as a surveyor in California, New Mexico, Honolulu, Hawaii and Colorado City, Arizona. He was also a liaison officer for the Mojaves in the Colorado River Reservation from 1863 to 1866 . He has published articles in Mining Magazine and Journal of Geology and Arizona Weekly . 1865 Ehrenberg member of the Convention in Tucson , so city council deputy.

On October 9, 1866, he was the victim of an act of violence in Dos Palmas, California. He was robbed and murdered.

Honors

The United States Board on Geographic Names named a mountain peak in Grand Canyon National Park after Ehrenberg: Ehrenberg Point , which is 2,074 meters high.

The settlement was Mineral City on the border between California and Arizona in Ehrenberg renamed.

Varia

By participating in the war, Ehrenberg had acquired a claim to a piece of land in Texas. But it wasn't until nearly 40 years later that this became a reality: his German relatives received a total of 3,000 acres as retrospective reward for his commitment to fight for Texas.

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natalie Ornish: EHRENBERG, HERMAN. In: The Handbook of Texas Online.
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 237.
  3. ↑ It is possible and regionally obvious that it is an incorrect local tradition and that Ehrenberg studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg instead of Freiburg in Freiberg , where he acquired the specialist knowledge that was later of use to him in the USA.
  4. ↑ A Guide to the Herman Ehrenberg Narrative, 1845 https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01728/cah-01728.html (accessed Feb. 3, 2018)
  5. ^ Advertisement in the Hallische Patriotisches Wochenblatt dated January 11, 1842
  6. ↑ Handbook of Texas Online, sv “Ehrenberg, Herman,” http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/EE/feh1.html (accessed July 8, 2010).
  7. ↑ Ehrenberg Point: WGS 84: Lat .: 36.25537222 ° N, Long: 111.94900556 ° W; WGS 84: Lat: 36 ° 15 '19.34 "N, Long: 111 ° 56' 56.42" W. Source: Grand Canyon National Park. In: Mineralienatlas - Fossilatlas. Stefan Schorn, February 2010, accessed on September 18, 2017 .
  8. ^ Wulf Nöhring: First famous and then murdered - Hermann Ehrenberg - born 200 years ago in Steuden, the adventurer conquered America and left many traces. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , Halle and Saalekreis edition, November 3, 2016, page 11
  9. ↑ The author James Crisp explains why he considers the statements about the parents to be false (p. 429).
personal data
SURNAME Ehrenberg, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrenberg, Hermann Vollrath
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Steers
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1866
Place of death Palm Springs (California)