1857: Adolf Schlagintweit, intrepid explorer

ExecutedToday.com ^ | August 26th, 2009 | Dogboy

[CheshireTheCat]

Sometimes it’s better to let your curiosity rest for a little while, especially when a violent despot takes charge of the region you want to do geological studies on. That was the takeaway lesson for Adolf Schlagintweit (English Wikipedia page | German) when Wali Khan discharged the German explorer’s head in 1857 in the Kashgar region of present-day China.

Schlagintweit and his brothers, Hermann and Robert, were in pursuit of knowledge, following up Hermann and Adolf’s drab and long-titled work Untersuchungen über die physikalische Geographie der Alpen, in ihren Beziehungen zu den phänomenon der Gletscher, zur Geologie, Meteorologie, und Pflanzengeographie (Studies of the Physical Geography of the Alps, in Relation to the Phenomena of Glaciers, Weather, and Phytogeography) and equally odorless (but far more accessibly titled) successor Neue Untersuchungen über die physikalische Geographie und Geologie der Alpen (New Studies of the Physical Geography and Geology of the Alps), authored by all three.

The Schlagintweits were successfully largely because of their ability to draw: their writing left much to be desired, and their scientific skills were frequently a target of ridicule after the voyage that saw the end of Adolf......

[alexander_busek]

[...] when Wali Khan discharged the German explorer’s head in 1857 in the Kashgar region of present-day China.

Peculiar diction. Adolf Schlaginweit was, in fact, beheaded.

Schlagintweit and his brothers, Hermann and Robert, were in pursuit of knowledge, following up Hermann and Adolf’s drab and long-titled work Untersuchungen über die physikalische Geographie der Alpen, in ihren Beziehungen zu den phänomenon der Gletscher, zur Geologie, Meteorologie, und Pflanzengeographie [...]

I've googled this title, and found numerous hits, in which this highlighted word is shown in various spellings, but the correct spelling, in the Dative Plural (demanded by the preceding "zu den"), would be either Phänomena or Phänomenen.

In any case, it should (as a noun) be capitalized.

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