Oskar Lenz
Oskar Lenz (also: Heinrich Oskar Lenz ) (born April 13, 1848 in Leipzig ; † March 2, 1925 in Sooss ) was a German-Austrian Africa explorer , mineralogist and geologist .
Live and act
Lenz, the son of a shoemaker, graduated from the Leipzig Nicolaigymnasium. From 1866 he studied mineralogy and geology at the University of Leipzig and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1870 he went to Vienna as a teacher at a private institute; In 1872 he joined the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute as a volunteer , where he was permanently employed in the same year in connection with his Austrian citizenship . He mapped southern and eastern areas of Austria-Hungary . 1874-77 he was on leave in Vienna, as an explorer in the service of the Berlin-based German Society for the Exploration of Equatorial Africa in the French colony of Gabon , where he mainly worked in the area of the Ogowe River . However, Lenz had to cancel the expedition due to illness and the refusal of his black companions to go any further. On the way back he met Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza , who was completing the study of the Ogowe Basin.
From 1877 to 1879 he took part in the regional surveys in eastern Galicia ( Stryj , Bolechiw , Halytsch ), which also involved several prehistoric excavations , on behalf of the Reichsanstalt as a section geologist .
His second trip, 1879–80, brought greater success. An expedition led by Lenz crossed the Sahara from Morocco to Senegal for the first time ; The main focus of the trip was geological studies, especially the iron ore deposits suspected in northwest Africa. In Timbuktu , Lenz, who was mistaken for the son of the African explorer Heinrich Barth , was warmly received on July 1, 1880, although the general mood in the caravan city was heated and latently xenophobic because of the French advances from Senegal and Algeria towards Niger . Lenz, who, dressed appropriately, pretended to be a ( Muslim ) Turkish doctor, and his companions had been able to travel largely unmolested, but after his return to Europe, the researcher participated particularly aggressively in the anti-Islamic agitation that led to a colonial occupation of northern and should justify West Africa ideologically. Quote required. Lenz was the first European who came from the north to reach the Sengal via Timbuktu (arrival in the port of Saint-Louis on November 22, 1880). A comparable route had been covered in the opposite direction by René Caillié (1799–1838) half a century earlier.
After lectures at geographical societies in Spain, France and Germany, Lenz was again at the Geological Reichsanstalt from mid-1881 , was now primarily concerned with geographical work and took over the editing of the monthly From all parts of the world , was subsequently Secretary General of the kk geographical society and, on March 7, 1885, full professor of geography at the Imperial and Royal University of Chernivtsi .
However, he did not get around to taking up this position, as he was commissioned by the kk geographical society to lead an expedition leading to the newly established Congo state . Their goal should be in addition to the attempt from the top of the Congo , while off to the northeast, to reach the upper Nilgebiete findings on between the two waters existing watershed to obtain.
The main aim of this research trip, which lasted until 1887, was to determine the actual trade conditions in the Congo Free State founded in 1885 and to map the Congo River. On July 1, 1885, the expedition left on the steamer Carl Woermann von Brunswik (Kiel) (completed in 1881, scrapped in 1908 ) . The destination was the port city of Banana at the mouth of the Congo . The ship's route considered trading places at which German, British and French factories were located. The arrival in Banana took place on August 14, 1885.
Lenz concentrated primarily on geological and ethnographic studies, while his companions, initially up to his illness with diphtheria , Oskar Baumann (1864–1899), then Friedrich Bohndorff (1848–1894), were responsible for mapping the area. Adverse circumstances, especially the lack of sufficient military power , made the plan to reach the areas north of the Congo fail - however, the company managed to cross the African continent from the mouth of the Congo to the mouth of the Zambezi .
For about 1,600 kilometers of river, from Pool Malebo (near today's Kinshasa ) upstream to Kisangani ( ), it took the research group 48 days on board the new steamer H. M. Stanley , made available by the government of the Congo State, since December 29, 1885 . In Kisangani Lenz met the slave and ivory trader Tippo Tip (1837 / 38-1905), the most influential figure in East Africa at the time, who advised him against an expedition to the highly unsafe areas north of the Congo, but for him the coming onward journey on the strongly flowing Congo (beyond the Stanley Falls ) gave three heavy canoes (6–8 rowers each) for almost free and gave him some of his Arab followers to protect him against attacks ( anthropophagic ) natives.
After (again) 48 days, the canoes reached Nynagwe ( ) ( Maniema province ), a trading place whose importance in favor of Kasongo ( ), the headquarters of Tippo Tips , was dwindling. On May 23, 1886, the expedition came to Kasongo, 15 kilometers inland - and later reached the Indian Ocean via land passages from Tanganyika to Lake Nyassa and via Shire and Zambezi on December 13, 1886 . The journey home led via Mozambique (which he reached on January 14, 1887), Zanzibar and Aden .
In March 1887 Lenz was back in Vienna, and in June the following he became a full professor at the German University of Prague , where he succeeded Dionys von Grün (1819-1896) at the chair for geography created in 1875 , established a geographic institute and established a teaching tradition reasoned. Lenz was dean in 1892/93 , rector in 1902/03 ; In 1909 he voluntarily retired .
Oskar Lenz, who had acquired a property in the municipality of Sooss in 1894 , died of a stroke (one year after the death of his wife, Paula, née Ridolfi, who came from Vienna). He was buried for rest on March 5, 1925 in the local cemetery in Sooss.
Already at the age of 70, after Georg Schweinfurth (1836–1925) and Gustav Theodor Fritsch (1838–1927), Lenz was the oldest living German explorer of Africa.
Fonts
- Notes about the old glacier of the Rhine valley . In: Yearbook of the Imperial Royal Geological Institute . Volume 24.1874, ZDB -ID 217948-9 . Braumüller, Vienna 1874, pp. 325-332. - Full text online .
- Journey on the Ogowe in West Africa. Reports from Dr. Oskar Lenz to the board of the German African Society . In: Petermann: Mittheilungen from Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt . Volume 21, year 1875, ZDB -ID 2143291-0 , pp. 121-130. - Full text online .
- Journey on the Okande in West Africa. Report to the board of the German African Society in Berlin . In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin . Volume 10.1875, ZDB ID 2155431-6 . Society for Geography, Berlin 1875, pp. 236–265. - Full text online and a map of a trip to the Bajaka countries online .
- Notes. From the Ogowe. In: Mittheilungen der kais (erlichen) and royal (ichen) geographical society in Vienna , year 1875, volume 18/1875, p. 319 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .
- Sketches from West Africa. Oskar Lenz's personal experiences . Hofmann, Berlin 1878. - Full text online .
- About dwarf peoples in West Africa. In: Mittheilungen der kais (erlichen) and royal (ichen) geographical society in Vienna , year 1878, volume 21/1878, pp. 28–39. (Online at ANNO ). .
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Travel from the Okandeland to the mouth of the Scheb River. With two cards (see panels VII and VIII). In: Mittheilungen der kais (erlichen) and royal (ichen) geographical society in Vienna , year 1878, volume 21/1878, pp. 457–483. (Online at ANNO ). .
- - (Continuation and conclusion). In: - , year 1878, -, pp. 505–527. (Online at ANNO ). .
- The river basin of the Ogowe from Okandeland to the mouth of the Schebe (...). In: - , year 1878, -, p. VII (plate). (Online at ANNO ). .
- Ethnographic map of the Ogowe river basin (…). In: - , year 1878, -, p. VIII (plate). (Online at ANNO ). .
- Features section. A German colonization attempt in West Africa. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 5232/1879, March 21, 1879, p. 1 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .
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The employment relationships in the commercial factories of West Africa. In: Monthly for the Orient , year 1879, p. 8 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
- The Gold Coast in West Africa (part 1/3). In: Monthly for the Orient , year 1879, pp. 27–31. (Online at ANNO ). .
- The Gold Coast in West Africa (Part 2/3). In: Monthly for the Orient , year 1879, pp. 52–56. (Online at ANNO ). .
- The Gold Coast in West Africa (Part 3/3). In: Monthly for the Orient , year 1879, pp. 78–82. (Online at ANNO ). .
- (Travel letters from Morocco; November 27, 1879, January 4, 1880). In: Mittheilungen der Imperial and Royal Geographical Society in Vienna , year 1880, volume 23/1880, p. 45 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
- (Travel letter from the Atlas area; March 18, 1880). In: Communications from the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society in Vienna , year 1880, volume 23/1880, p. 190 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
- (Travel letter from Arauan; June 20, 1880). In: Communications of the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society in Vienna , year 1880, volume 23/1880, p. 477 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
- Report on [his] journey from Tangier to Timbuktu and Senegal in 1879/80 . In: Georg von Boguslawski (Ed.): Negotiations of the Society for Geography in Berlin . Volume VIII. 1881, ZDB -ID 511390-8 . Reimer, Berlin 1881, pp. 130-140. - Full text online .
- Short report on my trip from Tangier to Timbuktu and Senegambia . In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin . Volume 16.1881, ZDB ID 2155431-6. Society for Geography, Berlin 1881, pp. 272–293. - Full text online .
- Report on my research trip to Africa. In: Mittheilungen der kais (erlichen) and royal (lichen) Geographical Society in Vienna , year 1881, volume 24/1881, pp. 238–244. (Online at ANNO ). .
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Timbuktu: Journey through Morocco, the Sahara and the Sudan, carried out on behalf of the African Society in Germany in 1879 and 1880. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1884. - Volume 1, full text online , Volume 2, full text online .
- (Review :) Franz Ritter von Le Monnier: Timbuktu. (...). In: Mittheilungen der Kaiser (lichen) Königigl (ichen) Geographical Society , year 1884, volume 27/1884, pp. 566-570. (Online at ANNO ). .
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Fas, the residence of Sultan Muley Hassan (part 1/2). In: Monthly for the Orient , year 1884, pp. 112–116. (Online at ANNO ). .
- Fâs, the residence of Sultan Muley Hassan (part 2/2). In: Monthly for the Orient , year 1884, pp. 129–134. (Online at ANNO ). .
- The German Colonial Endeavors in West Africa. In: Monthly for the Orient , year 1884, pp. 241–245. (Online at ANNO ). .
- The German colonies in Africa and Oceania. In: Mittheilungen der kais (erlichen) regal (ichen) Geographical Society in Vienna , year 1885, volume 28/1885, pp. 163–182. (Online at ANNO ). .
- The congo. In: Monthly for the Orient , year 1884, pp. 293–298. (Online at ANNO ). .
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The Austrian Congo Expedition. In: Monthly for the Orient , year 1885, p. 99 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .
- From the Austrian Congo expedition. In: Monthly for the Orient , year 1885, pp. 228–235. (Online at ANNO ). .
- The Austrian Congo Expedition. Letter from Prof. Dr. Oskar Lenz . In: A. Supan (Ed.): Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen , Volume 32.1886, pp. 121 ff. - Full text online .
- The importance of the Zambesi Shire for reaching the inner African lake areas. In: Monthly for the Orient , year 1889, pp. 49–54. (Online at ANNO ). .
- From the Sahara. Lecture given on January 3, 1893 . In: Writings of the association for the dissemination of scientific knowledge in Vienna . Volume 23.1893, Verlag der Zoologischer-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Österreich, Vienna 1893, ISSN 0371-4608 , pp. 277-292. - Full text online (PDF; 787 kB) .
- About the importance of termites for earth movement and natural soil culture in tropical countries. Lecture given in the Section for Physical Geography of the 66th Assembly of German Naturalists and Physicians in Vienna in September 1894. In: Mittheilungen der kais (erlichen) Königig (ichen) Geographical Society in Vienna , year 1894, volume 37/1894, pp. 711–725. (Online at ANNO ). .
- The political situation in Morocco. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 10727/1894, July 5, 1894, p. 1, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- About money from primitive peoples. Lecture. Publishing house and printing company, Hamburg 1895, OBV .
- Migrations in Africa. Studies and experiences. Literary Society, Vienna 1895, OBV .
- About ancient Arab ruins in Maschona land and their relationship to the biblical Ophir. Lecture given at the monthly meeting of the kk geographical society in Vienna on October 27, 1896 (…). In: Mittheilungen der kais (erlichen) regal (ichen) Geographical Society in Vienna , year 1897, volume 40/1897, pp. 187–211. (Online at ANNO ). .
- Caravan march through North Africa. Oskar Lenz. According to the original reports, told and edited by Hans Stadler. German publishing house for youth and people, Vienna (among others) 1925, OBV .
Awards, honors, prizes
- Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht (1878)
- Knight's Cross of the Royal Portuguese Order of Christ (1879)
- Silver Karl Ritter Medal (1881)
- Honorary member of the Imperial and Royal Geographic Society in Vienna (1881)
- Prussian Royal Crown Order III. Class (1881)
- Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order (1881)
- Médaille d'or pour Voyages d'étude, Missions et Travaux de Reconnaissance of the Société de Géographie , Paris (1882)
- Member of the Leopoldina , Geography Section (1892)
- Franz von Hauer Medal (1918, on the occasion of his 70th birthday)
literature
- The more recent research at the Ogowe . (Part 1). In: Mittheilungen from Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt about important new research in the total area of geography. Volume 24, year 1878, pp. 106-110 ( digitized version ).
- The more recent research at the Ogowe . (Part 2). In: Mittheilungen from Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt about important new researches in the whole field of geography . Volume 24, year 1878, p. 426 ff. ( Digitized version ).
- Lenz, Oskar . In: Friedrich Embacher: Lexicon of trips and discoveries. (…) First section: biographies of the explorers from the oldest times to the present . Meyer's specialist dictionaries. Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, pp. 186–187 ( digitized version ).
- Franz Ritter von Le Monnier: The Austrian Congo Expedition. In: Mittheilungen der Kaiser (lichen) Königigl (ichen) Geographical Society , year 1885, volume 28/1885, pp. 225–232. (Online at ANNO ). .
- Franz Ritter von Le Monnier: The Return of the Austrian Congo Expedition. In: Mittheilungen der Kaiser (lichen) Königigl (ichen) Geographical Society , year 1887, Volume 30/1887, pp. 1–5. (Online at ANNO ). .
- Dr. Oskar Lenz, traveler to Africa. In: Fernschau. Yearbook of the Central Swiss Geographical-Commercial Society in Aarau. Volume 3, 1889, ZDB -ID 802547-2 , pp. LXI-LXIV ( digitized version ).
- From the Congo to the Zambesi. Report on the Austrian Congo expedition in the years 1885–1887. In: Fernschau. Yearbook of the Central Swiss Geographical-Commercial Society in Aarau. Volume 3, 1889, ZDB -ID 802547-2 , pp. 91-121 ( digitized version ).
- Anton Krispin: Local News. A visit to Hofrat Oskar Lenz. In: Badener Zeitung , No. 21/1914 (XXXVth year), March 14, 1914, p. 3 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
- Martin Mueller: Oskar Lenz on the 100th birthday on April 13, 1948. Scientific publishing company, Stuttgart 1949, ÖNB .
- Karl Adalbert Sedlmeyer : Oskar Lenz, Africa researcher and Prague university professor. In: Bohemia , Volume 6, 1965, ZDB -ID 1166-6 , pp. 400-426 ( digitized version ).
- Jaroslav Vávra: Lenz, Oskar. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 140.
- Josef R. Krammer: The Africa explorer Oskar Lenz . Term paper University of Vienna, Vienna 1979 (unprinted).
- Hans Weis: In memory of Oskar Lenz's journey through Morocco, the Sahara and Sudan in the years 1879–1880. In: Communications of the Austrian Geographical Society. Volume 127, 1985, ZDB -ID 206039-5 , pp. 158-169.
- Karin Elisabeth Lorber: Society and economy in the travel and research reports of Oskar Lenz (1848-1925). An Austrian's view of pre-industrial life in Africa. Diploma thesis Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt 2007 (unprinted).
- Alexander Brandt, Paul Kainbacher : Austrian researchers and travelers in Africa before 1945. A biography and bibliography from A-Z . 2nd edition, Kainbacher, Baden 2010, ISBN 3-9501302-7-6 , pp. 107–116 (with complete list of publications; digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hofrat Heinrich Oskar Lenz †. In: Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt (No. 21720/1925), March 3, 1925, p. 3, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ On the appearance of Jurassic structures in Bohemia. Dissertation, University of Leipzig. Gebauer-Schwetschke, Halle on the Saale 1870. - ( digitized ).
- ↑ In the course of this year (...) are in the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute. In: Local-Anzeiger der "Presse" , supplement to No. 337/1872 (XXV. Year), December 7, 1872, p. 9, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ a b Dr. Oskar Lenz, Africa traveler , S. LXI.
- ↑ a b Jaroslav Vávra: Lenz Oskar. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 140.
- ↑ Dr. Oskar Lenz, Africa traveler , S. LXII.
- ↑ Dr. Oskar Lenz, Africa traveler , S. LXIII.
- ↑ Features. The murder of the painter Joseph Ladein in Africa. In: Wiener Abendpost. Supplement to Wiener Zeitung , No. 237/1880, October 14, 1880, p. 5, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Africa research. In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 292/1880, December 19, 1880, p. 8, top right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ FH: Nature and Ethnology. Dr. Oskar Lenz in Timbuktu. In: Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 5851/1880, December 11, 1880, p. 4. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ From all parts of the world. Illustrated family sheet for geography and ethnology. Date of publication: 1.1869 / 70 (1870) - 29.1898. Paetel, Berlin, ZDB -ID 130145-7 .
- ^ Annual report of the director D. Stur . In: Negotiations of the Imperial Geological Institute . No. 1/1886, ISSN 0016-7819 . Hölder, Wien 1886, p. 2. - Text online (PDF; 3.8 MB) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Daily news. (...) Austrian congo expedition. In: Das Vaterland , No. 180/1885 (XXVIth year), July 3, 1885, p. 4 center. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Austrian congo expedition. In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 107/1885, May 10, 1885, p. 3, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ Oskar Lenz: From the Austrian Congo Expedition. In: Salzburger Chronik für Stadt und Land / Salzburger Chronik / Salzburger Chronik. Tagblatt with the illustrated supplement “Die Woche im Bild” / Die Woche im Bild. Illustrated entertainment supplement to the “Salzburger Chronik” / Salzburger Chronik. Daily newspaper with the illustrated supplement “Oesterreichische / Österreichische Woche” / Österreichische Woche / Salzburger Zeitung. Tagblatt with the illustrated supplement “Austrian Week” / Salzburger Zeitung , No. 247/1885 (XXI. Volume), October 31, 1885, p. 1. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ a b Dr. Oskar Lenz, Africa traveler , S. LXIII.
- ↑ (...) After a long stay in the lower Congo (...) . In: A. Supan (Ed.): Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen , Volume 32.1886, p. 60, top left. - text online .
- ↑ From the Congo to the Zambesi , p. 98.
- ↑ From the Congo to the Zambesi , p. 100 f.
- ↑ From the Austrian congo expedition. In: Das Vaterland , No. 322/1886, November 22, 1886, p. 3, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ a b From the Congo to the Zambesi , p. 104.
- ↑ From the Congo to the Zambesi , p. 120.
- ↑ Green, Dionys von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 86.
- ↑ Dionys Grün: "Geography as an independent science", given as an inaugural lecture at the inauguration of the newly created chair for geography at the Imperial and Royal University of Prague on May 1, 1875. Calve, Prague 1875, OBV .
- ↑ Eugen Oberhummer : Oskar Lenz † . In: Paul Langhans (Ed.): Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen , Volume 71.1925, p. 119, top left.
- ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Councilor Oskar Lenz. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 19264/1918, April 13, 1918, p. 8 middle. (Online at ANNO ).
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↑ Local news. Councilor Dr. Oskar Lenz. In: Badener Zeitung , No. 15/1923 (XLIV. Volume), April 13, 1923, p. 2, center right. (Online at ANNO ). ;
Correspondence. (...) Sooss. (Death.). In: Badener Zeitung , No. 14/1924 (XLV. Year), April 4, 1924, p. 5 middle. (Online at ANNO ). . - ↑ News from the area. (...) Sooss. (Death.). In: Badener Zeitung , No. 18/1925 (XLVI. Volume), March 4, 1925, p. 5, top center. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Court and staff news. (...) Councilor Oskar Lenz. In: Fremd-Blatt with military supplement Die Vedette , evening edition, No. 98/1918 (LXXII. Year), April 13, 1918, p. 2, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ Vienna, February 23. Court and staff news. In: Local-Anzeiger der "Presse" , No. 54/1878 (XXXI. Year), February 24, 1878, p. 7 (unpaginated), top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Official. In: Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt (No. 5285/1925), May 14, 1879, p. 3, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Awards . In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin . Mittler, Berlin 1910, p. 45 (appendix).
- ^ Report on my research trip to Africa. In: Mittheilungen der Kaiser (Erlichen) and König (lichen) Geographical Society in Vienna , year 1881, Volume 24/1881, p. 244. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Official. (...) Court and staff news. In: Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 6126/1881, September 17, 1881, p. 3, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Awards. In: Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 6222/1881, December 22, 1881, p. 1, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Hof- und Personal-Nachrichten. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 6365/1882, May 17, 1882, p. 3, top right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ Members (...) Oskar Lenz . In: leopoldina.org , accessed on January 11, 2016.
- ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Court and staff news. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 19265/1918, April 14, 1918, p. 8, center right. (Online at ANNO ).
Remarks
- ^ Departure from Marseille on November 6, 1879. - Behm: Dr. A. Petermann's communications . Volume 26, year 1880, p. 319 bottom left, online .
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↑ Arrival in Médine ( ), Mali (see: French Sudan ), on November 2, 1880. - Behm: Dr. A. Petermann's communications . Volume 26, year 1880, p. 469 center left, online ; The expedition ended at St.-Louis-de-Sénégal on November 20, 1880. - Behm: Dr. A. Petermann's communications . Volume 27, year 1881, p. 189 top left, online
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↑ The report of the safe arrival in Zanzibar initially led in relevant circles to the assumption (with disparaging comments) that Lenz had crossed Equatorial Africa , as was already common at that time ; a success that meant the complete failure of Lenz's originally planned voyage of discovery. - See: (...) On January 14th, Prof. Dr. O. Lenz arrived safely in Zanzibar (...) . In: Supan (Ed.): Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen , Volume 33.1887, p. 57, bottom right. - text online .
Even after the route actually chosen became known, the recognition of Lenz's performance was limited. - See: (...) Prof. Dr. O. Lenz has his return journey to the east coast (...) . In: Supan (Ed.): Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen , Volume 33.1887, p. 124, bottom left. - text online . - ↑ A year later, the chair for geography was filled with Alfred Grund (1875–1914). - See: Ed (uard) Brückner : † Professor Dr. Alfred Grund. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 18044/1914, November 17, 1914, p. 12, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Then : Sooss No. 28; today: Hauptstraße 48. The building, now used as the town hall, is known locally as the Paulahof . - From: Viktor Wallner : The Lower Austrian district of Baden and its communities. A publication of the municipalities of the administrative district of Baden. Historical, current, worth knowing, statistical . Niederösterreichische Verlagsgesellschaft, Wiener Neustadt 1995, OBV , p. 214.
- ^ Lenz 'first work for the Neue Freie Presse . - See: The commemoration of the “New Free Press”. (...) University professors, civil servants, doctors and lawyers. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 17968/1914, September 2, 1914, p. 1 center. (Online at ANNO ). .
Web links
- Literature by and about Oskar Lenz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Oskar Lenz in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Oskar Lenz . Portrait shot. 11 x 16.2 cm. Sn, s. l., s. a. - online .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lenz, Oskar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lenz, Heinrich Oskar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian Africa explorer, mineralogist and geologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1848 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1925 |
Place of death | Sooss , Lower Austria |