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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-16-neu> [abgerufen am 20.04.2024].
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| Titel | Humboldt and Fremont | ||||
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| Jahr | 1856 | ||||
| Ort | Boston, Massachusetts | ||||
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Nachweis in: The Boston Daily Atlas 25:32 (7. August 1856), [o. S.].
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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 pio-neer of American discovery, the King of Prussiapresented to Col. John C. Fremont “the great GoldenMedal of Progress in the Sciences.” The medal is offine gold, massive, more than double the size of theAmerican double eagle, and of exquisite workman-ship. On the face is the medallion head of the King,Frederick William the Fourth, surrounded by figuresemblematical of religion, jurisprudence, medicine andthe arts. 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-mentary letter from Baron Humboldt, of which thefollowing is a translation:
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 junction ofthe Kansas river with the Missouri, to the falls of theColumbia, and to the missions of the Santa Barbaraand Puebla de los Angeles, in New California; or aspace of 28 degrees of longitude, and from the 24thto the 43d parallel of latitude. Four hundred pointshave been determined hyposometrically by barome-tric obeërvations, and, for the most part, geographi-cally by astronomical observations; so that a districtwhich, with the windings of the route, amounts to3600 geographical miles, from the mouth of the Kan-sas, to’ Fort Vancouver and the shores of the Pacific,(almost 720 miles more than the distance from Mad-rid to Tobolsk,) has been represented in profile, show-ing the relative heights above the level of the sea.
“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 virtual 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.”
Humboldt and Fremont.
To Colonel John C. Fremont:
“It is very agreeable to me, air, to address you theselines by my excellent friend, our minister to theUnited States, M. de Gerolt. After having given youin the new edition of my ‘Aspects of Nature,’ thepublic testimony of the admiration which is due toyour gigantic labors between St. Louis, of Missouri,and the coasts of the South Sea, I feel happy to offeryou, in this living token (dans ce petit signe da vie)the homage of my warm acknowledgment. Youhave displayed a noble courage in distant expeditions,braved all the dangers of cold and famine, enrichedall the branches of the natural sciences, illustrated avast country which was almost entitely unknown tous. “A merit so rare has been acknowledged by a sov-ereign warmly interested in the progress of physicalgeography; the King orders me to offer you the grandgolden medal destined to those who have labored atscientifie progress. I hope that this mark of theRoyal good will, will be agreeable to you at a timewhen, upon the proposition of the illustrious geo-grapher, Charles Ritter, the Geographical Society atBerlin has named you as 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, whichhas so nobly resisted the introduction of slavery, willbe worthily represented by a friend of liberty, and ofthe progress of intelligence. “Accept, I pray you, sir, the expression of myhigh and affectionate consideration. “Your most humble and most ob’t serv’t.A. V. HUMBOLDT. “Sans Souci, October 7, 1850.”