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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-12-neu> [abgerufen am 29.03.2024].

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Titel Humboldt and Fremont
Jahr 1856
Ort St. Clairsville, Ohio
Nachweis
in: Belmont Chronicle 8:42:937 (24. Juli 1856), S. [o. S.].
Sprache Englisch
Typografischer Befund Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung, Kapitälchen.
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Textnummer Druckausgabe: VII.14
Dateiname: 1851-Colonel_Fremont-12-neu
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Seitenanzahl: 1
Zeichenanzahl: 4307

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From the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer. Humboldt and Fremont. To honor him as a Pioneer of American Discovery, the King of Prussia presented to Col. John C. Fremont “the great Golden Medal of Progress in the Sciences.” The medal is of fine gold, massive, more than double the size of the American double eagle and of exquisite workmanship. On the face is the medallion head of the King Frederick William the Fourth, surrounded by figures emblematical of Religion, Juris- prudence, Medicine, and the Arts. On the reverse, Apollo, in the chariot of the sun, drawn by four high-mettled, plunging horses traversing the zodiac, and darting rays of light from his head. This beautiful tribute to the merit of Col. Fremont came to him accompanied with a complimentry letter from Baron Humboldt, of which the follow ing is a translation: To Col. Fremont, Senator: “It is very agreeable to me, sir, to ad- dress you these lines by my excellent friend our Minister to the United States, M. De- Gerolt. After having given you in the new edition of my ‘Aspects of Nature,’ the public testimony of the admiration which is due to your gigantic labors between St. Louis of Missouri, and the coasts of the South Sea, I feel happy to offer you, in this living token (dans ce petit signe de vie) the homage of my warm acknowledgment. You have dis- played a noble courage in distant expeditions braved all the dangers of cold and famine, enriched all the branches of the natural sciences, illustrated a vast country which was almost entirely unknown to us. “A merit so rare has been acknowledged by a sovereign warmly interested in the progress of physical Geography, the King orders me to offer you the grand golden medal destined to those who have labored at scientific progress. I hope that this mark of the Royal good will, will be agreeable to you at a time when, upon the proposition of the illustrious geographer, Chas. Ritter, the Geographical Society at Berlin, has named you an honorary member. For myself, I must thank you particularly also for the honor which you have done in attaching my name and that of my fellow laborer and in- timate friend, Mr. Bonpland, to countries neighboring to those which have been the object of our labors. California, which has so nobly resisted the introduction of slavery, will be worthily represented by a friend of liberty, and of the progress of intelligence.

“Accept, I pray you, sir, the expression of my high and affectionate consideration. “Your most humble, and most obedient servant, A. v. HUMBOLDT.

The following is the public testimony of the Baron’s admiration of the gigantic lab- ors of Fremont, referred to in the letter, as contained in a new or third edition of hisAspects of Nature,” and which, as a refer- ence, becomes a natural appendant to the letter: “Fremont’s map and geographical investi- gations comprehend the extensive region from the junction of the Kansas River with the Missouri, to the falls of the Columbia, and to the missions of Santa Barbara and Puebla de los Angeles, in New California; or a space of 28 degrees of longitude, and from the 34th to the 45th parallel of latitude. Four hundred points have been determined hyposometrically by barometric observations and for the most part geographically by as- tronomical observations; so that a district which, with the winding of the route, a- mounts to 3,600 geographical miles, from the mouth of the Kansas to Fort Van Cou- ver and the shores of the Pacific, (almost 720 miles more than the distance from Mad- rid to Tobolsk,) has been represented in profile, showing the relative hights above the level of the sea. “As I was, I believe, the first person who undertook to represent, in geognostic profile the form of entire countries—such as the Iberian peninsula, the high lands of Mex- ico, and the Cordilleras of South America, (the semi-perspective projections of a Siberian traveller, the Abbe Chappe, were founded on mere and generally ill judged estimations of the fall of rivers)—it has given me peeuliar pleasure to see the geo- graphical method of representing the form of the earth in a vertical direction, or the elevations of the solid portion of our planet above its watery covering, applied on so grand a scale as has been done in Fremont’s map.”