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Alexander von Humboldt: „Humboldt and Fremont“, in: ders., Sämtliche Schriften digital, herausgegeben von Oliver Lubrich und Thomas Nehrlich, Universität Bern 2021. URL: <https://humboldt.unibe.ch/text/1851-Colonel_Fremont-05-neu> [abgerufen am 19.04.2024].
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| Titel | Humboldt and Fremont | ||||
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| Jahr | 1856 | ||||
| Ort | New York City, New York | ||||
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Nachweis in: Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer 54:9961 (10. Juli 1856), S. [2].
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| Sprache | Englisch | ||||
| Typografischer Befund | Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung, Kapitälchen. | ||||
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Letter from Baron Humboldt (Boston, Massachusetts, 1856, Englisch) |
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To honor him as a Pioneer of American Discovery,the King of Prussia presented to Colonel John C.Fremont“the Golden Medal of Progress in the Sciences.” The medal is of fine gold, massive,more than double the size of the American doubleeagle, and of exquisite workmanship. On theface is the medallion head of the King, FrederickWilliam the Fourth, surrounded by figures emblem-atical of Religion, Jurisprudence, Medicine and theArts. On the reverse, Apollo, in the chariot of thesun, drawn by four high-mettled, plunging horses,traversing the zodiac, and darting rays of light fromhis head. This beautiful tribute to the merit of Col. Fremont came to him accompanied with a compli-mentry letter from Baron Humboldt, of which thefollowing is a translation:
“To Col. Fremont, Senator,“It is very agreeable to me, sir, to address youthese lines by my excellent friend, our minister to theUnited States, M. de Gerolt. After having givenyou in the new edition of my ‘Aspects of Nature,’the public testimony of the admiration which is dueto your gigantic labors between St. Louis, of Mis-souri, and the coasts of the South Sea, I feel happyto offer you, in this living token (dans ce petit signede vie) the homage of my warm acknowledgment.You have displayed a noble courage in distant expe-ditions, braved all the dangers of cold and famine,enriched all the branches of the natural sciences, and il-lustrated a vast country which was almost entirelyunknown to us. “A merit so rare has been acknowledged by asovereign warmly interested in the progress of physi-cal geography; the King orders me to offer you thegrand golden medal destined to those who have la-bored at scientific progress. I hope that this markof the Royal good will, will be agreeable to you at atime when, upon the proposition of the illustriousgeographer, Chas. Ritter, the Geographical Societyat Berlin, has named you an honorary member. Formyself, I must thank you particularly also for thehonor which you have done in attaching my nameand that of my fellow-laborer and intimate friend, Mr.Bonpland, to countries neighboring to those whichhave been the object of our labors. California,which has so nobly resisted the introduction of slave-ry, will be worthily represented by a friend of lib-erty, and of the progress of intelligence.
HUMBOLDT AND FREMONT.
To honor him as a Pioneer of American Discovery,the King of Prussia presented to Colonel John C.Fremont“the Golden Medal of Progress in the Sciences.” The medal is of fine gold, massive,more than double the size of the American doubleeagle, and of exquisite workmanship. On theface is the medallion head of the King, FrederickWilliam the Fourth, surrounded by figures emblem-atical of Religion, Jurisprudence, Medicine and theArts. On the reverse, Apollo, in the chariot of thesun, drawn by four high-mettled, plunging horses,traversing the zodiac, and darting rays of light fromhis head. This beautiful tribute to the merit of Col. Fremont came to him accompanied with a compli-mentry letter from Baron Humboldt, of which thefollowing is a translation:
“To Col. Fremont, Senator,“It is very agreeable to me, sir, to address youthese lines by my excellent friend, our minister to theUnited States, M. de Gerolt. After having givenyou in the new edition of my ‘Aspects of Nature,’the public testimony of the admiration which is dueto your gigantic labors between St. Louis, of Mis-souri, and the coasts of the South Sea, I feel happyto offer you, in this living token (dans ce petit signede vie) the homage of my warm acknowledgment.You have displayed a noble courage in distant expe-ditions, braved all the dangers of cold and famine,enriched all the branches of the natural sciences, and il-lustrated a vast country which was almost entirelyunknown to us. “A merit so rare has been acknowledged by asovereign warmly interested in the progress of physi-cal geography; the King orders me to offer you thegrand golden medal destined to those who have la-bored at scientific progress. I hope that this markof the Royal good will, will be agreeable to you at atime when, upon the proposition of the illustriousgeographer, Chas. Ritter, the Geographical Societyat Berlin, has named you an honorary member. Formyself, I must thank you particularly also for thehonor which you have done in attaching my nameand that of my fellow-laborer and intimate friend, Mr.Bonpland, to countries neighboring to those whichhave been the object of our labors. California,which has so nobly resisted the introduction of slave-ry, will be worthily represented by a friend of lib-erty, and of the progress of intelligence.
“Accept, I pray you, sir, the expression of my highand affectionate consideration.“Your most humble and most obedient servant,“A. V. HUMBOLDT.
“Sans Souci, October 7, 1850.”
On the envelope thus addressed:
“To Colonel Fremont, Senator,
“With the great Golden Medal,
“For progress in the sciences.
“Baron Humboldt.”
The following is the public testimony of the Ba-ron’s admiration of the gigantic
labors of Fremont,referred to in the letter, as contained in the new
orthird edition of his “Aspects
of Nature,” and which,as a reference, becomes a natural
appendant to theletter:“Fremont’s map and geographical investigationscomprehend the extensive region
from the junctionof the Kansas river with the Missouri to the falls of
theColumbia, and to the missions of Santa Barbaraand Puebla de los
Angelos, in New California; or aspace of 28 degrees of longitude, and from
the 34thto the 45th parallel of latitude. Four hundred pointshave been
determined hyposometrically by barome-tric observation, and, for the most
part, geographi-cally by astronomical observations; so that a
districtwhich, with the windings of the route, amounts to3,600
geographical miles, from the mouth of theKansas to Fort Van Couver and the
shores of thePacific, (almost 720 miles more than the distance
fromMadrid to Tobolsk,) has been represented in profile,showing the
relative heights above the level of thesea.“As I was, I believe, the first person who under-took to represent, in geognostic
profile, the form ofentire countries—such as the Iberian peninsula,
thehigh lands of Mexico, and the Cordilleras of SouthAmerica, (the
semi-perspective projections of a Sibe-rian traveller the Abbe Chappe, were
founded onmere and generally ill judged estimations of the fallof
rivers)—it has given me peculiar pleasure to seethe geographical
method of representing the form ofthe earth in a vertical direction, or the
elevations ofthe solid portion of our planet above its watery
cover-ing, applied on so grand a scale as has been done
inFremont’s map.