Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Schlagintweit, Robert von

SCHLAGINTWEIT, Robert von (shlah-gint-vite). German explorer, b. in Munich, Bavaria, 27 Oct., 1833; d. in Giessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, 6 June, 1885. He assisted his brothers, Hermann and Adolf, in the geological exploration of India in 1854-’7, prepared the work entitled “Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High-Asia” (4 vols., Leipsic, 1860-’6), and filled the chair of geography in the University of Giessen. In 1867-’70 he lectured in German and English throughout the United States, beginning at the Lowell institute, Boston, and while in the country explored the Pacific coast. He published “Die Pacificeisenbahnen in Nordamerika” (New York, 1870), and “California” (1871).