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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-10-neu> [abgerufen am 28.03.2024].

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Titel Humboldt and Fremont
Jahr 1856
Ort Madison, Wisconsin
Nachweis
in: Madison Daily State Journal 4:221 (17. Juli 1856), [o. S.].
Sprache Englisch
Typografischer Befund Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung, Kapitälchen; Fußnoten mit Asterisken.
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Textnummer Druckausgabe: VII.14
Dateiname: 1851-Colonel_Fremont-10-neu
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Seitenanzahl: 1
Zeichenanzahl: 5167

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Humboldt and Fremont.

Among the scientific honors paid to Col.Fremont, as a pioneer of American discove-ry, certainly not the least notable was thatconferred by the King of Prusia in “thegreat Golden Medal of Progress in the Sci-ences.” The manner of its communicationadded a rare value to the gift. It was sentwith a most complimentary letter of BaronHumboldt, who took occasion to add thewarmest expressions of his own personal re-spect and admiration. As this letter hasapparently been overlooked in the noticesrecently made of Fremont by the press, weavail ourselves of the advance sheets of thenew biography in the course of publicationby Derby & Co., of this city, to lay it beforeour readers. One sentence of Humboldt’sletter we have marked in italics; it was aconscientious tribute paid to the Senatorthen; it is highly significant of Fremont’s“friendship to liberty and to the “progress ofintelligence” now.The following isthe English translation ofBaron Humboldt’s letter:To Col. Fremont, Senator—It is veryagreeable to me, Sir, to address you theselines by my excellent friend, our Minister tothe United States, M. de Gerolt. After hav-ing given you, in the new edition of my ‘As-pects of Nature,’ the public testimony of theadmiration which is due to your giganticlabors between St. Louis, of Missouri, andthe coasts of the South Sea, I feel happy tooffer you, in this living token, (dans ce petitsigne de vie,) the homage of my warm ac-knowledgment. You have displayed a noblecourage in distant expeditions, braved all thedangers of cold and famine, enriched all thebranches of the natural sciences, illustrated avast country which was almost entirely un-known to us.“As merit so rare has been acknowledgedby a sovereign warmly interested in the pro-gress of physical geography; the King ordersme to offer you the grand golden medal des-tined to those who have labored at scientificprogress. I hope that this mark of the Roy-al good will, will be agreeable to you at atime when, upon the proposition of the il-lustrious geographer, Chas. Ritter the Geo-graphical Society at Berlin has named youan honorary member. For myself I mustthank you particularly also for the honorwhich you have done in attaching my nameand that of my fellow laborer and intimatefriend, Mr. Bonpland, to countries neighbor-ing to those which have been the object ofour labors. California, which has so noblyresisted the introduction of Slavery, will beworthily represented by a friend of Libertyand of the progress of intelligence.

“Accept, I pray you, Sir the expression ofmy high and affectionate consideration.“Your most humble and most obedient servant“A. V. HUMBOLDT.

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 ofthe Baron’s admiration of the giganticlabors of Fremont, referred to in the letter,as contained in the new or third editions ofhis “Aspects of Nature,” and which, as areference, becomes a natural appendant tothe letter:“Fremont’s map and geographical investi-gations comprehend the extensive regionfrom the junction of the Kansas River withthe Missouri to the Falls of the Columbia andto the missions of Santa Barbara and Pueblade los Angeles, in New California; or a spaceof 28 degrees of longitude, and from the 34thto the 45th parallel of latitude. Four hun-dred points have been determined hyposome-trically by barometric observations, and, forthe most part, geographically by astronomi-cal observations; so that a district which,with the winding of the route, amounts to3,600 geographical miles, from the mouth ofthe Kansas to Fort Van Couver and theshores of the Pacific, (almost 720 miles morethan the distance from Madrid to Tobolsk,)has been represented in profile, showing therelative hights above the level of the sea.“As I was, I believe, the first person whoundertook to represent, in geognostic profile,the form of entire countries—such as theIberian Peninsula, the high lands of Mexico,and the Cordilleras of South America, (thesemi-perspective projections of a Siberiantraveler, the Abbe Chappe, were founded onmere and generally ill-judged estimations ofthe fall of rivers)—it has given me peculiarpleasure to see the geographical method ofrepresenting the form of the earth in a verti-cal direction, on the elevations of the solidportion of our planet above its watery cover-ing, applied on so grand a scale as has beendone in Fremont’s map.”

* 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 the face is the medallion head of the King, Frederic-William the Fourth, surrounded by figures emblematicalof Religion, Jurisprudence, Medicine, and the Arts. Onthe reverse, Apollo, in the chariot of the Sun, drawn byfour high-mettled, plunging horses, traversing the zodiac,and darting rays of light from his head.”