Plate 12 Friedrich von Hellwald, Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists (cropped)

Friedrich von Hellwald (29 March 1842, in

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, Italy – 1 November 1892, in

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n writer on

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of civilization.

Biography

He was born at

. He entered the Austrian Army in 1858, and was a lieutenant of cavalry (1866) in the war with Prussia. In 1866 he became an editor of the Austrian military magazine, '' Österreichische Militärische Zeitschrift''. In 1872 he moved from

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to Cannstatt, where he succeeded Oscar Peschel as chief editor of ''Das Ausland''. In this capacity, he emphasized subjects associated with

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

and the history of civilization. In 1881 he resigned as editor of ''Das Ausland''.

Works

His many works, which are more popular than scientific, include: * ''Maximilian I, Kaiser von Mexiko'' ( Maximilian I of Mexico, Emperor of Mexico, 1869). * ''Kulturgeschichte in ihrer natürlichen Entwicklung bis zur Gegenwart'' (Cultural history and its geographical development up to the present; 4th edition, 1896-98). * ''Die Erde und ihre Völker'' (Earth and its peoples; 4th edition 1897). * ''Die Russen in Centralasien. Eine Studie über die neueste Geographie und Geschichte Centralasiens'' (1873); later translated into English by Theodore Wirgman and published as "The Russians in Central Asia; a critical examination down to the present time of the geography and history of Central Asia" (1874).HathiTrust Digital Library
published works * ''Naturgeschichte des Menschen'' (Natural history of the human race; 1883-84). * ''Amerika in Wort und Bild'' (America in words and pictures; 1883-85). * ''Frankreich in Wort und Bild'' (France in words and pictures; 1884-87). * ''Hinterindische Länder und Völker. Reisen in den Flußgebieten des Irrawaddy und Mekong; in Birma, Annam, Kambodscha und Siam.'' (Burmese lands and peoples, travels in the river basins of the Irrawaddy and

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; in

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

, Annam,

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan ...

and

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; Leipzig 1880). * ''Die menschliche Familie nach ihrer Entstehung und natürlichen Entwicklung'' (The human family, it origins and geographical development; 1889). * ''Kulturbilder'' (1894) A posthumous work, edited by Theodor Möller.

References

External links

* An article on his brother, a noted literature historian. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hellwald, Friedrich von 1842 births 1892 deaths 19th-century Austrian historians Austrian geographers Writers from Padua