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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-06-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: New-York Daily Tribune 16:4752 (12. Juli 1856), S. 4.
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| Sprache | Englisch | ||||
| Typografischer Befund | Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung, Kapitälchen; Fußnoten mit Asterisken. | ||||
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Colonel Fremont and Baron Humboldt (Glasgow, 1856, Englisch) |
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Ein Brief Humboldt’s (Regensburg, 1856, Deutsch) |
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Humboldt and Colonel Fremont (Leeds, 1856, Englisch) |
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Humboldt and Fremont (Marysville, California, 1856, Englisch) |
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Colonel Fremont (Newry, 1856, Englisch) |
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Humbold y Fremont (Madrid, 1856, Spanisch) |
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Col. Fremont and Baron Humboldt (St. Johnsbury, Vermont, 1856, Englisch) |
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[Colonel Fremont] (New York City, New York, 1856, Englisch; Französisch) |
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Letter from Baron Humboldt (Providence, Rhode Island, 1856, Englisch) |
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Letter from Baron Humboldt (Boston, Massachusetts, 1856, Englisch) |
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Among the scientific honors paid to Col. Fremont,as a pioneer of
American discovery, certainly not theleast notable was that
conferred by the King of Prus-sia in “the great Golden
Medal of Progress in theSciences.” The manner of its
communication added arare value to the gift. It was sent with a
most com-plimentary letter of Baron Humboldt, who took occa-sion to add the warmest expressions of his own per-sonal respect and admiration. As this letter has appa-rently been overlooked in the notices recently made ofFremont by the press, we avail ourselves of theadvance sheets of the new biography in the course ofpublication by Derby & Co., of this city, to lay itbefore our readers. One sentence of Humboldt’s letterwe have marked in italics; it was a conscientioustribute paid
to the Senator then; it is highly signifi-cant of
Fremont’s “friendship to liberty and to the“progress of intelligence” now.
The following is the English translation of BaronHumboldt’s letter:
On the envelope thus addressed:
The following is the public testimony of the Baron’sadmiration of the gigantic labors of Fremont, referredto in the letter, as contained in the new or thirdeditions of his “Aspects of Nature,” and which, as areference, becomes a natural appendant to the letter:
“Fremont’s map and geographical investigationscomprehend the extensive region from the junction ofthe
Kansas River with the Missouri to the Falls of theColumbia, and
to the missions of Santa Barbara andPuebla de los Angeles, in
New California; or a spaceof 28 degrees of longitude, and from
the 34th to the45th parallel of latitude. Four hundred points
havebeen determined hyposometrically by barometric ob-servations, and for the most part, geographically byastronomical observations; so that a district which,with the windings of the route, amounts to 3,600geographical miles, from the mouth of the Kansas toFort Van
Couver and the shores of the Pacific, (almost720 miles more
than the distance from Madrid toTobolsk,) has been represented
in profile, showing therelative hights above the level of the
sea.
“As I was, I believe, the first person who under-took to
represent, in geognostic proflie, 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 traveler, the Abbe
Chappe, were founded onmere and generally ill-judged
estimations of the fall ofrivers)—it has given me
peculiar pleasure to see thegeographical method of representing
the form of theearth in a vertical direction, or the elevations
of the
* The following is the description of the medal:“Of fine gold, massive, more than double the size of theAmerican double eagle, and of exquisite workmanship. On theface is the medallion head of the King, Frederic-William theFourth, surrounded by figures emblematical of Religion, Juris-prudence, Medicine, and the Arts. On the reverse, Apollo, inthe chariot of the Sun, drawn by four high-mettled, plunginghorses, traversing the zodiac, and darting rays of light from hisbead.”|5| solid portion of our planet above its watery covering,applied on so grand a scale as has been done in Fre-mont’s map.”
HUMBOLDT AND FREMONT.
“To Col. Fremont,
Senator—It is very agreeableto me, Sir, to address you these lines by my
excellentfriend, our Minister to the United
States, N. de Gerelt.After having given you, in the
new edition of my ‘As-pects of
Nature,’ the public testimony of the admira-tion which is due to your gigantic labors between St.Louis, of Missouri, and the coasts of the South
Sea, Ifeel happy to offer you, in this living
token, (dans cepetit signe de
vie,) the homage of my warm acknowl-edgment. You have displayed a noble courage indistant expeditions, braved all the dangers of cold andfamine, enriched all the branches of the natural
sci-ences, illustrated a vast country which was
almost en-tirely unknown to us.
“A merit so rare has been acknowledged by asovereign warmly interested in the progress of physicalgeography; the King orders me to offer you the
grandgolden medal destined to those who have
labored atscientific progress. I hope that this
mark of the Royalgood will, will be agreeable to
you at a time when,upon the proposition of the
illustrious geographer,Chas. Ritter, the
Geographical Society at Berlin hasnamed you an
honorary member. For myself, I mustthank you
particularly also for the honor which youhave done
in attaching my name and that of my fellow-laborer
and intimate friend, Mr. Bonpland, to countriesneighboring to those which have been the object of ourlabors. California, which has so
nobly resisted theintroduction of Slavery, will
be worthily representedby a friend of Liberty
and of the progress of intelli-gence.
“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.”
“To Colonel Fremont, Senator.
“With the great Golden Medal*
“For progress in the sciences.
“Baron Humboldt.”
* The following is the description of the medal:“Of fine gold, massive, more than double the size of theAmerican double eagle, and of exquisite workmanship. On theface is the medallion head of the King, Frederic-William theFourth, surrounded by figures emblematical of Religion, Juris-prudence, Medicine, and the Arts. On the reverse, Apollo, inthe chariot of the Sun, drawn by four high-mettled, plunginghorses, traversing the zodiac, and darting rays of light from hisbead.”|5| solid portion of our planet above its watery covering,applied on so grand a scale as has been done in Fre-mont’s map.”