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SCHLAGINTWEIT , the name of five See also:

German scientific explorers or students of See also:foreign countries. They were See also:brothers, and were named See also:HERMANN (1826–1882, who became known as Hermann von Schlagintweit Sakunlunski), ADOLF (1829–1857), EDUARD (1831–1866), See also:ROBERT (1833–1885), and EMIL (1835–1904). Hermann was See also:born at See also:Munich on the 13th of May 1826. His first scientific labours were studies in the See also:Alps, carried on between 1846 and 1848 in association with his See also:brother Adolf (born at Munich on the gth of See also:January 1829). The publication of the Untersuchungen caber See also:die physikalische Geographie der Alpen in 1850 (See also:Leipzig) founded the scientific reputation of the two brothers, and their reputation was increased by subsequentinvestigations in the same See also:field, in which Robert (born at Munich on the 27th of See also:October 1837) also took See also: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 von See also:Humboldt, a See also:commission from the See also:East See also:India See also:Company to travel for scientific purposes in their territory, and more particularly to make observations on terrestrial See also:magnetism. During 1854–1857 they travelled, some-times in company, sometimes separately, in the See also: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 and Kuen-lun mountains. Hermann and Robert were the first Europeans who crossed the Kuen-lun, and in See also:honour of that achievement the former had the See also:title or surname of Saktinlifnski bestowed upon him (in 1864). Robert returned to See also:Europe See also:early in 1857; Hermann, after a visit to See also:Nepal, joined him on his homeward See also:journey; but Adolf, who remained to prosecute his explorations in Central See also:Asia, was put to See also:death by the See also:amir of See also:Kashgar on the 26th of See also:August. Hermann and Robert published in four volumes ,the Results of a Scientific See also:Mission to India and High Asia (Leipzig, 186o-1866).

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

history collections. Hermann spent the last years of his See also:life chiefly in See also:literary and scientific activity, partly at Munich, partly at the See also:castle of Jagernburg near See also:Forchheim. He died at Munich on the 19th of January 1882. Robert was appointed See also:professor of See also:geography at See also:Giessen in 1863. He paid several visits to See also:America, which furnished him with material for such See also:works as Die Pacific-Eisenbahn (187o), Die Mormonen (1874), Die Prdrien (1876), &c., all published at See also:Cologne. He died at Giessen on the 6th of See also:June 1885. Eduard, born on the 23rd of See also:March 1831, killed in See also:battle at See also:Kissingen in 1866, made himself known by an See also:account of the See also:Spanish expedition to See also:Morocco in 18.59–186o. Emil, born on the 7th of See also:July 1835, wrote several learned works See also:relating to India and See also:Tibet. He died on the 29th of October 1904.

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