The Duke [K 1] Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg ( German: Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg ; June 25, 1797 , Karlsruhe , Silesia - November 25, 1860 , Mergentheim ) - a representative of the Württemberg royal house , a prominent German naturalist, traveler and discoverer who carried out at the beginning of the XIX century expeditions to North America , North Africa and Australia . In 1829, discovered the source of the Missouri River .
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Biography
Duke Paul Wilhelm is the youngest son of Duke Eugene Friedrich Heinrich Württemberg and Duchess Louise Stolberg-Gedern . He was a nephew to the first king of Württemberg, Friedrich .
In 1822-1824, the Duke of Paul embarked on his first major expedition to Cuba and North America. The Duke kept a diary in which he described in detail the area visited from a natural science and ethnological point of view. The artist, on behalf of the duke, performed numerous drawings from landscapes, plants and animals.
On April 17, 1827 in Regensburg, Duke Paul married Princess Maria Sophia Dorothea Thurn-i-Taxis, daughter of Prince Karl Alexander . The wife left the Duke Paul before the birth of their only son Maximilian in 1828. The marriage was officially dissolved on May 2, 1835. On the occasion of the wedding, the Duke Paul received use for the residence of the Mergentheim Palace, which housed his extensive ethnological collection, collected during his travels. In Upper Silesian Karlsruhe, the Duke erected the palace of Paulusburg, which was completed only in the year of the death of the owner.
Duke Paul was primarily interested in the exploration of the Americas and is considered one of the discoverers of the source of the Mississippi River. In the 1850s, Duke Paul of Württemberg visited a German farmer, Otmar von Behr, in Texas Cisterdale. The Duke was a member of the Academies of Sciences in Vienna, St. Petersburg and London, and conducted extensive correspondence with many natural scientists in Europe. Since 1822, Duke Paul, as a member of the Royal House of Württemberg, was a member of the Württemberg estate. Until 1847, he personally attended his meetings.
In the Mergentheim Palace, the Duke Paul launched a huge scientific exhibition and bequeathed to sell it only in its entirety. This condition was not met, and his collection was distributed to various museums. Most of the ducal collection is currently in the Museum of Natural Sciences in the Rosenstein Palace in Stuttgart, as well as in the Linden Museum . A small part of the collection was in the Berlin Ethnological Museum . The graphic part of the archive of Duke Paul, which initially consisted of 300 objects, was stored in the Württemberg State Library, but was significantly damaged during the air raid in 1944.
Works
- Friedrich Paul Wilhelm Herzog von Württemberg: Reise in Nordamerika während den Jahren 1822, 1823 und 1824. Erster Theil. Mergentheim [Druckerei Johann Georg Thomm] 1828.
- Paul Wilhelm Herzog von Württemberg: Erste Reise nach dem nördlichen Amerika in den Jahren 1822 bis 1824. Stuttgart und Tübingen 1835.
Comments
- ↑ In the Württemberg royal house, the title duke was worn by all the descendants of the head of the house (King Württemberg) in a direct male legal line. That is, in this family after 1806, the duke is the title of prince , and not the title of the monarch ruling the duchy .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118981943 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 The Peerage - 717826 copies.
Literature
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). - Lpz. : Duncker & Humblot, 1875-1912. (German)
- Siegfried Augustin (Hg.): Herzog Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg, Reise nach dem nördlichen Amerika in den Jahren 1822 bis 1824 . - Münch. 1978.
- Siegfried Augustin (Hg.): Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg, Reisen und Streifzüge in Mexiko und Nordamerika 1849-1856 . - Stuttg. und W. , 1986.
- Kazimierz Bobowski . Paul Herzog von Württemberg. // Das Haus Württemberg - Ein biographisches Lexikon. - Stuttg. : Kohlhammer, 1997 .-- ISBN 3-17-013605-4
- Monika Firla / Hermann Forkl . Herzog Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg (1797-1860) und Afrika (Sudan, Äthiopien, Kanuri und Afroamerika). // Tribus, NF 47/1998. - S. 57-95.
- Hans von Sachsen-Altenburg / Robert L. Dyer . Duke Paul of Wuerttemberg on the Missouri frontier, 1823, 1830 and 1851. - Boonville / Missouri 1998.
- Kilian Klann . Die Sammlung indianischer Ethnographica aus Nordamerika des Herzog Friedrich Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg. - Wyk auf Föhr, 1999.
- Monika Firla . Herzog Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg. Naturforscher, Ethnograph, Reisender, Sammler und Museumsgründer. // Lebensbilder aus Baden-Württemberg. / Hg .: Gerhard Thaddey / Joachim Fischer. - Bd. 20. - Stuttg. 2001. - S. 226-257.
- Heinz Bohn / Jan Ruben Haller . Jagdschloss von Herzog Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg auf dem Hirschrain. // Acht Burgen und Schlösser sowie ein Traumschloss in den ehemaligen woellwarthschen Orten Essingen und Lauterburg. - Druckerei Opferkuch, Aalen, Juli 2015. - DNB Sign. - 2015 B 20485.
- Peter Tobias Lange / Monika Firla . Die letzte Reise in Amerika des Paul Wilhelm Herzog von Württemberg. - Metzingen, 2004.
- Heike Paulsen . Medizinische Betrachtungen innerhalb der Reisetagebücher über Nordamerika von Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg, Prinz Maximilian zu Wied und Herzog Bernhard zu Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach . - Diss. 16. März 2011 .-- Gedruckt mit Genehmigung der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln 2011.
Links
- Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg at the German National Library .
- Biography (German)