SCHLAGINTWEIT  , the name of five See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German scientific explorers or students of See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign countries . They were See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers, and were named See also:

• HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

HERMANN (1826–1882, who became known as Hermann von Schlagintweit Sakunlunski), ADOLF (1829–1857), EDUARD (1831–1866), See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

ROBERT (1833–1885), and EMIL (1835–1904) . Hermann was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich on the 13th of May 1826 . His first scientific labours were studies in the See also:

• ALPS

Alps, carried on between 1846 and 1848 in association with his See also:

• BROTHER

brother Adolf (born at Munich on the gth of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1829) . The publication of the Untersuchungen caber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die physikalische Geographie der Alpen in 1850 (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig) founded the scientific reputation of the two brothers, and their reputation was increased by subsequentinvestigations in the same See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field, in which Robert (born at Munich on the 27th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1837) also took See also:

• PART

part . Soon after the publication of the Neue Untersuchungen fiber die phys . Geog. u . Geol. der Alpen (Leipzig, 1854), the three brothers received, on the recommendation of See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander von See also:

• HUMBOLDT, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER, BARON
• HUMBOLDT, KARL WILHELM VON (1767-1835)

Humboldt, a See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission from the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India See also:

• COMPANY

Company to travel for scientific purposes in their territory, and more particularly to make observations on terrestrial See also:

• MAGNETISM
• MAGNETISM, TERRESTRIAL

magnetism . During 1854–1857 they travelled, some-times in company, sometimes separately, in the See also:

• DECCAN (Sans. Dakshina, " the South ")

Deccan and in the region of the Himalayas, prosecuting their investigations beyond the frontiers of the company's territory into the region of the See also:

• KARAKORUM (Turkish, " black stone debris ")

Karakorum and Kuen-lun mountains . Hermann and Robert were the first Europeans who crossed the Kuen-lun, and in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of that achievement the former had the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title or surname of Saktinlifnski bestowed upon him (in 1864) . Robert returned to See also:

• EUROPE

Europe See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in 1857; Hermann, after a visit to See also:

• NEPAL, NEPAUL

Nepal, joined him on his homeward See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey; but Adolf, who remained to prosecute his explorations in Central See also:

• ASIA

Asia, was put to See also:

• DEATH

death by the See also:

• AMIR, or AMEER (an Arabic word meaning " commander," from the root amr, " commanding ")

amir of See also:

• KASHGAR

Kashgar on the 26th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August . Hermann and Robert published in four volumes ,the Results of a Scientific See also:

• MISSION

Mission to India and High Asia (Leipzig, 186o-1866) .

They had, moreover, made extensive ethnographical and natural See also:

• HISTORY

history collections . Hermann spent the last years of his See also:

• LIFE

life chiefly in See also:

• LITERARY

literary and scientific activity, partly at Munich, partly at the See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle of Jagernburg near See also:

• FORCHHEIM

Forchheim . He died at Munich on the 19th of January 1882 . Robert was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography at See also:

• GIESSEN

Giessen in 1863 . He paid several visits to See also:

• AMERICA

America, which furnished him with material for such See also:

• WORKS

works as Die Pacific-Eisenbahn (187o), Die Mormonen (1874), Die Prdrien (1876), &c., all published at See also:

• COLOGNE (Ger. Koln, or officially, since 1900, Coln)

Cologne . He died at Giessen on the 6th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1885 . Eduard, born on the 23rd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1831, killed in See also:

• BATTLE

battle at See also:

• KISSINGEN

Kissingen in 1866, made himself known by an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish expedition to See also:

• MOROCCO

Morocco in 18.59–186o . Emil, born on the 7th of See also:

• JULY

July 1835, wrote several learned works See also:

• RELATING

relating to India and See also:

• TIBET, or THIBET

Tibet . He died on the 29th of October 1904 .