Reginald Koettlitz

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Reginald Koettlitz

Reginald Koettlitz (born December 23, 1860 in Ostend , Belgium , † January 10, 1916 in Cradock , South Africa ) was a British medic and polar explorer . He took part in the Jackson Harmsworth Expedition to the Arctic and the Discovery Expedition to Antarctica .

Life

Reginald Koettlitz was born in Ostend as the son of a Prussian father, a Lutheran churchman, and his English-born wife, a Bonn governess. The family soon settled in Kent , first in Hougham and later in Dover . Koettlitz attended Dover College and later Guy's Hospital in London, where he was trained as a medical doctor. He then took a job as a country doctor in the mining towns near Coxhoe in County Durham .

Expeditions

In 1894 Koettlitz took part in the Jackson Harmsworth expedition to Franz Josef Land as a doctor and geologist. He brought back a polar bear from the trip , which is still in the Dover Museum today. The Koettlitz Island (Ostrow Kjotliza) on British channel of the Franz-Josef-Lands was named after him.

In 1898/99 he traveled with Herbert Weld Blundell (1852-1935) from Somalia via Abyssinia to Egypt.

In 1901 Koettlitz took part in Robert Falcon Scott's discovery expedition to Antarctica as a doctor and biologist. Many of the samples he took are now in the archives of the Natural History Museum in London . His assistant was Edward Adrian Wilson , who later participated as a doctor on Scott's trip to the South Pole and died in the process. During an advance across the McMurdo Sound , Koettlitz discovered the Koettlitz Glacier and Koettlitz Firnfeld, which were later named after him . For his contribution to the Discovery Expedition, he received a medal from the Royal Geographical Society .

Koettlitz later worked in Brazil. He ended up practicing as a doctor in Craddock, South Africa. He died of dysentery in January 1916 , on the same day as his wife, who was born in France and who suffered a heart attack.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dr. Reginald Koettlitz, 1860–1916, from Dover Museum website, accessed November 4, 2017
  2. ^ Reginald Koettlitz: A Journey through Somali Land and Southern Abyssinia to the Shangalla or Berta Country and the Blue Nile, and through the Sudan to Egypt. In: Scottish Geographical Magazine . Volume 16, 1900, pp. 467-490 (English)
  3. ↑ Obituary: Dr. Reginald Koettlitz . In: The Geographical Journal . 47, No. 2, 1916, pp. 150-151.
  4. ↑ Karoo Graves: Here Read Harry Potter .
personal data
SURNAME Koettlitz, Reginald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British medic and polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH East End
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1916
Place of death Cradock