Robert Schlagintweit
1833–85
German traveller and explorer. With his brothers Adolph and Hermann, undertook a scientific expedition, sponsored by the East India Company and supported by the Prussian government, to India and Tibet, 1854–7. Appointed extraordinary professor of geography, Giessen, in 1864.
Sources
ADB
BHGW.
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
BHGW: Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften enthaltend Nachweisung über Lebensverhältnisse und Leistungen von Mathematikern, Astronomen, Physikern, Chemikern, Mineralogen, Geologen usw. By Johann Christian Poggendorff. 5 vols. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth; Verlag Chemie. 1863–1926.
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