Online Encyclopedia

English principles of colonization, he returned to Berlin and promoted the German Colonization Society (Deutsche Kolonialverein). In the autumn of 1884 he proceeded with two companions to East Africa, and concluded in the name of his society See also:

TREATIES

treaties with the chiefs of Useguha, Nguru, Usagara and Ukami. Returning to See also:

EUROPE

Europe See also:

early in 1885, he formed the German East Africa See also:

COMPANY

Company, which speedily obtained an imperial See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter. The See also:

story of this enterprise, the first step in the formation of a German See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony in East Africa, is told under AFRICA, § 5. In 1888 Peters undertook an expedition from the east See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of Africa, avowedly for the See also:

RELIEF

relief of Emin See also:

PASHA

Pasha. This expedition was not sr nctioned by the German See also:

government and was regardedby the See also:

BRITISH

British authorities as a filibustering exploit. One of its See also:

OBJECTS

objects was to extend the See also:

SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere of German See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence, and, reaching See also:

UGANDA

Uganda early in 1890, Peters concluded a treaty with the See also:

king of that See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country in favour of See also:

Germany. He See also:

LEFT

left Uganda hastily on the approach of a representative of the British East Africa Company, and on reaching See also:

ZANZIBAR

Zanzibar learned that his treaty was useless, as an agreement had been come to between Germany and See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain whereby Uganda was left in the British sphere. On his return to Germany Peters was received with great honours, and in 1891 published an See also:

account of his expedition entitled See also:

Die deutsche Emin Pasha Expedition, which was translated into English. In 1891 he went out again to East Africa as imperial high See also:

COMMISSIONER

commissioner for the See also:

KILIMANJARO

Kilimanjaro See also:

DISTRICT

district, and in 1892 was one of the commissioners for delimiting the Anglo-German boundary in that region.

In See also:

JUNE

June 1892 accusations were brought against him of excesses in his treatment of the natives, and after three investigations had been held he was, in 1897, deprived of his See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission for " misuse of See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power." (He was regranted his See also:

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

title of imperial commissioner in 1906.) During 1893–1895 Peters was employed in the colonial See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office at Berlin. In 1896 he removed to London, where he occupied himself in schemes for exploiting parts of See also:

RHODESIA (so named after Cecil Rhodes)

Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa. In the interests of a company he formed, Peters explored the Fura district and Macombe's country on the See also:

ZAMBEZI

Zambezi, where in 1899 he discovered ruins of See also:

ancient cities and deserted gold mines. He returned in 1901 and gave an account of his explorations in The Eldorado of the Ancients (1902). In 1905 he again visited the region between the Zambezi and Sabi See also:

rivers. Besides the books already mentioned and some smaller See also:

TREATISES

treatises Peters published a philosophic See also:

WORK

work entitled Willenswelt and Weltwille (1883), and a disquisition on early gold See also:

PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production entitled Das goldene See also:

OPHIR

Ophir Salomos (1895), translated into English in 1898.

End of Article: PETERS, KARL (1856– )

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.

» Add information or comments to this article.

Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.

Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
PETERS (or PETER), HUGH (1598–166o)

[next]
PETERSBURG