Robert Herman Schomburgk
| Sir Robert Herman Schomburgk PhD | |||||||||
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| Born | 1804 | ||||||||
| Died | 1865 | ||||||||
| Residence | San Domingo | ||||||||
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diplomacy academic | ||||||||
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Office Notes
House Notes
Schomburgh in 62
HM Consul
APS Meeting 23rd June 1840, active at meeting.
Notes From Elsewhere
Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (5 June 1804 – 11 March 1865) was a German-born explorer for Great Britain who carried out geographical, ethnological and botanical studies in South America and the West Indies, and also fulfilled diplomatic missions for Great Britain in the Dominican Republic and Thailand.
Publications
External Publications
Voyage in Guiana and upon the Shores of the Orinoco during the Years 1835–'39 (London, 1840; translated into German by his brother Otto, under the title Reisen in Guiana und am Orinoco in den Jahren 1835–'39, Leipsig, 1841, with a preface by Alexander von Humboldt) Researches in Guiana, 1837–'39 (1840) Description of British Guiana, Geographical and Statistical (London, 1840) Views in the Interior of Guiana (1840) Baubacenia Alexandrine et Alexandra imperatris (Brunswick, 1845), monograph on plants discovered in British Guiana Rapatea Frederici Augusti et Saxo-Frederici regalis (1845), monograph on plants discovered in British Guiana History of Barbadoes (London, 1847) The Discovery of the Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh (1848) Peter Rivière (ed.), The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk 1835–1844, 2 vols (Aldershot: Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, 2006).
House Publications
On the Natives of Guyana. read 27 nov. 1844
Letter to Prince Albert. Read 18 Jun 1851
