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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-38-neu> [abgerufen am 29.03.2024].

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Titel Humboldt and Fremont
Jahr 1856
Ort Marysville, California
Nachweis
in: Marysville Daily Herald 7:15 (22. August 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-38-neu
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Seitenanzahl: 1
Zeichenanzahl: 4502

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Humboldt and Fremont.

Among the honors conferred upon Fremontfor his contributions to science and history,is the presentation, by the King of Prussia,“the Golden Medal of Progress in the scien-ces.” The honor was greatly enhanced, fromthe fact that the great naturalist, Humboldt,was made the medium of its communication.The following is the 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, N. 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 gigantic la-bors between St. Louis, of Missouri, and thecoasts of the South Sea, I feel happy to offeryou, in this living token, (dans ce petit signede vie,) the homage of my warm acknowledg-ment. You have displayed a noble couragein distant expeditions, braved all the dangersof cold and famine, enriched all the branchesof the natural sciences, illustrated a vast coun-try which was almost entirely unknown to us. A merit so rare has been acknowledged bya sovereign warmly interested in the progressof physical geography; the King orders me tooffer you the grand golden medal destined tothose 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, uponthe proposition of the illustrious geographer,Chas. Ritter, the Geographical Society at Ber-lin has named you an honorary member.—For myself, I must thank you particularly alsofor the honor which you have done in attach-ing my name and that of my fellow-laborerand intimate friend, Mr. Bonpland, to coun-tries neighboring to those which have beenthe object of our labors. California, whichhas so nobly resisted the introduction of Sla-very, will be nobly represented by a friend ofLiberty and of the progress of intelligence. Accept, I pray you, Sir, the expression ofmy high and affectionate consideration.

Your most humble and most obed’t serv’t, 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 of theBaron’s admiration of the gigantic labors ofFremont, referred to in the letter, as contain-ed in the new or third edition of his “Aspectsof Nature,” and which, as a reference, becomesa natural appendant to the letter: Fremont’s map and geographical investiga-tions comprehend the extensive region fromthe junction of the Kansas river with the Mis-souri to the Falls of the Columbia, and to themissions of Santa Barbara and Puebla de losAngeles, in New California; or a space of 28degrees of longitude, and from the 34th tothe 45th parallel of latitude. Four hundredpoints have been determined hyposometrical-ly by barometric observations, and, for themost part, geographically by astronomical ob-servations; so that a district which, with thewindings of the route, amounts to 3,600 geo-graphical miles, from the mouth of the Kansasto Fort Vancouver and the shores of the Pa-cific, (almost 720 miles more than the distancefrom Madrid to Tobolsk,) has been represent-ed in profile, showing the relative heightsabove 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 the Ibe-rian Peninsula, the high lands of Mexico, andthe Cordilleras of South America, (the semi-perspective projections of a Siberian traveller,the Abbe Chappe, were founded on mere andgenerally ill-judged estimations of the tall ofrivers)—it has given me peculiar pleasure tosee the geographical method of representingthe form of the earth in a vertical direction,or the elevations of the solid portion of ourplanet above its watery covering, applied onso grand a scale as has been done in Fremont’smap.


* The following is the description of the medal:Of fine gold, massive, more than double the size ofthe American double eagle, and of exquisite workman-ship. On the face is the medallion head of the King,Frederic William the Fourth, surrounded by figuresemblematical of Religion, Jurisprudence, Medicineand the Arts. On the reverse, Apollo, in the chariotof the Sun, drawn by four high-mettled, plunging hor-ses, traversing the zodiac, and darting rays of lightfrom his head.