Hermann von Schlagintweit

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Hermann Schlagintweit, lithograph by Rudolf Hoffmann , 1858
Hermann von Schlagintweit
Grave of Hermann Schlagintweit in the old southern cemetery in Munich location

Hermann Schlagintweit , from 1859 von Schlagintweit , from 1866 Freiherr von Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski (born May 13, 1826 in Munich , † January 19, 1882 in Munich) was a German naturalist and traveler.

family

Schlagintweit was the son of the ophthalmologist Joseph Schlagintweit (1791-1854).

He and his brother Robert were raised to the Bavarian hereditary nobility on August 28, 1859 (Berchtesgaden) with a diploma dated November 24, 1859 (Munich) and enrolled in the aristocratic class in the Kingdom of Bavaria on December 12, 1859 . As the bidder of the Kwen-lun ( Kunlun ), Hermann received the name extension from Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski and was raised to the baron status in 1866 .

Life

Together with his brothers Adolf and Robert, he dealt with physical and geological investigations from an early age. The observations they made in the Alps between 1846 and 1848 were published in the Studies on the Physical Geography of the Alps (Leipzig 1850). Hermann and Adolf then visited England and Scotland and in 1851 went again to the Alps, where they only narrowly failed on 23 August 1851 at the first ascent of the highest peak of Monte Rosa , the 4,634 high Dufourspitze .

Hermann von Schlagintweit received a teaching position at the Berlin University , where he taught meteorology and physical geography . With Adolf he wrote the work New Investigations on the Physical Geography and the Geology of the Alps (Leipzig 1854). In this work also appeared for the first time a work by the younger brother Robert on the geology of the Kaisergebirge .

Hermann and Adolf constructed two reliefs, one for Monte Rosa and the other for the Zugspitze ; So-called photographic maps were later made based on these reliefs (published in Berlin 1854).

Alexander von Humboldt placed the two brothers with an order from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the East India Company to undertake a scientific trip to India , on which they also accompanied Robert. They went first to Bombay and then on two separate routes to Madras . Adolf and Robert went to the northwest areas to explore the mountain world (since 1855). Hermann then met her again to advance into the high mountains. They visited, partly individually, partly together, Kashmir , Ladakh and Baltistan . Hermann and Robert went over the mountain ranges of the Karakoram and the Kwen-lun into the Chinese Turkestan . The scientific exploration of the Karakoram and the Kwen-lun are the main results of this trip.

After returning to Rawalpindi in Panjab , the brothers separated. Hermann traveled to Nepal through Hindustan and Bengal . In April 1857 he left India via Calcutta to meet Robert in Egypt . They finally landed in Trieste on June 7, 1857 . Adolf Schlagintweit crossed the Karakoram again in 1857, was arrested as a spy in Turkestan and executed in Kashgar in August .

The results of these trips consist of 46 volumes of observation manuscripts, 38 volumes of meteorological observation series, 752 drawings and watercolors and more than 14,000 items for collection.

After his return, Hermann settled in Berlin with his brother Robert ; then they went to Forchheim to the Jägersburg. Hermann later settled in Munich. He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1863 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was an honorary member of the natural research society in Bamberg.

The idea for the mechanical curvimeter in the current version goes back to Hermann von Schlagintweit .

tomb

Hermann Freiherr von Schlagintweit died on January 19, 1882 in Munich. The tomb of Hermann Schlagintweit is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 2 - Row 7 - Place 16/17) Location . His father Joseph Schlagintweit and his brother Adolf Schlagintweit are also lying in the grave .

Honors

The plant genera Schlagintweitia Griseb. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and Schlagintweitiella Ulbr. from the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) are named after the three brothers Adolf Schlagintweit , Hermann Freiherr von Schlagintweit and Robert von Schlagintweit .

Works

With Robert von Schlagintweit:

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Hermann von Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ member entry of Hermann von Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 21 June 2016th
  3. ↑ Pierer's Universal Lexicon of the Past and Present . 4th edition. Verlagbuchhandlung von HA Pierer , Altenburg 1865 ( zeno.org [accessed on August 7, 2018] encyclopedia entry "Wegmesser").
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .


personal data
SURNAME Schlagintweit, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski, Hermann Freiherr von (full name); Schlagintweit, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturalist and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1882
Place of death Munich