Hermann Schlagintweit, Sakünlünski (13 May 1826 - 19 January 1882), also known as Hermann Rudolph Alfred von Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski, was a German explorer of Central Asia. Events 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. For the game see 1826 (board game. Year 1826 ( MDCCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. Year 1882 ( MDCCCLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. This list of explorers is sorted by surname See also the links below. Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east and from southern Russia in the north to northern Pakistan in the south
The eldest of the five Schlagintweit brothers of Munich, his earliest work was scientific study in the Alps, 1846-1848, along with his brother Adolph. Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Adolf Schlagintweit ( 9 January 1829 - 26 August 1857) was a German explorer of Central Asia. They established their reputation with the Untersuchungen über die physikalische Geographie der Alpen (1850), and were afterwards joined by brother Robert, and jointly published Neue Untersuchungen über die physikalische Geographie und Geologie der Alpen in 1854. Robert Schlagintweit ( 24 October 1833 - 6 June 1885) was a German explorer of Central Asia who also wrote about
In 1854, acting on the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, the East India Company commissioned Hermann, Adolf, and Robert to make scientific investigations in their territory, and particularly to study the Earth's magnetic field. (September 14 1769 &ndash May 6 1859 was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister philosopher and linguist The Honourable East India Company ( HEIC) referred to most commonly as the East India Company, also historically and colloquially as John Company, or For the next three years, they travelled through the Deccan, then up into the Himalayas, Karakoram, and Kunlun mountains. Karakoram is a mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, China, and India, located in the regions of Gilgit, Ladakh, and The Kunlun Mountains ( Mongolian: Хөндлөн Уулс is one of the longest Mountain chains in Asia, extending more than 3000 Km. Hermann and Robert were the first Europeans to cross the Kunlun, for which achievement Hermann received the title "Sakünlünski".
Hermann visited Nepal, then returned to Europe, where with Robert he published Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia (four vols. Nepal (नेपाल) is a Landlocked country in South Asia. , 1860-1866). He spent the remainder of his life in literary and scientific work, both at Munich and at the Schloß Jägersburg castle near Forchheim. For other places called Forchheim, see Forchheim (disambiguation Forchheim is a large town in Upper Franconia (Oberfranken
Selected works
- Untersuchungen über die physikalische Geographie der Alpen, 1850.
- Neue Untersuchungen über die physikalische Geographie und Geologie der Alpen, 1854.
- Results of a scientific mission to India and high Asia : undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV. and MDCCCLVIII. , by order of the court of directors of the Honorable East India Company / by Hermann, Adolphe, and Robert de Schlagintweit : with an atlas of panoramas, views and maps, Leipzig : F. A. Brockhaus ; London : Trübner & Co. , 1861-66.
- Neue daten über den todestag von Adolph v. Schlagintweit, nebst bemerkungen über mussălmán’sche zeitrechnung, München, Akademische buchdr. von F. Straub, 1869.
- Reisen in Indien und Hochasien. Eine darstellung der landschaft, der cultur und sitten der bewohner, in verbindung mit klimatischen und geologischen verhältnissen. Basirt auf die resultate der wissenschaftlichen mission von Hermann, Adolph und Robert von Schlagintweit, ausgeführt in den jahren 1854-1858, Jena, H. Costenoble, 1869-80.
- Bericht über die ethnographischen gegenstände unserer sammlungen und über die raumanweisung in der K. Burg zu Nürnberg . . . , München, Buchdruckerei von F. Straub, 1878.
References
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