Acclimatization: The Schomburgk brothers in South Australia

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  • Engelhard Weigl

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18443/43

Keywords:

1849, Australien, Schomburgk

Abstract

Abstract

Together with their wives Otto and Richard Schomburgk arrived in Port Adelaide (South Australia) on August 16th 1849. The essay looks at how these two brothers, who had received their scientific training and promotion in the circle surrounding Alexander von Humboldt, reacted to the unfamiliar conditions in the young British colony. Some indication will be given as to the differences between the Schomburgk brothers treatment of the natural resources of the new colony and that of the English colonists of the time.

Zusammenfassung

Otto und Richard Schomburgk erreichten zusammen mit ihren Frauen Port Adelaide (Südaustralien) am 6. August 1849. Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie die Brüder, die ihre wissenschaftliche Ausbildung und Förderung im Umkreis von Alexander von Humboldt erhalten haben, auf die unbekannten klimatischen Bedingungen in der noch jungen englischen Kolonie reagierten. Dabei soll die Differenz der Schomburgk Brüder zu den englischen Kolonisten im Umgang mit den Ressourcen der neuen Kolonie sichtbar werden.

Author Biography

Engelhard Weigl

Engelhard Weigl, born in 1943 in Germany, studied German Literature and philosophy in Hamburg and Bochum; PhD thesis on Jean Paul; Research assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin from 1979 to 1983; Lecturer at the University of Tokyo from 1983 to 1988; since 1988 Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

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Weigl, E. (2003). Acclimatization: The Schomburgk brothers in South Australia . HiN - Alexander Von Humboldt in the Net. International Review for Humboldt Studies, 4(07), 51–62. https://doi.org/10.18443/43

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Vol. 4 No. 07 (2003)

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