The New International Encyclopædia/Hellwald, Friedrich von

HELLWALD, Friedrich von (1842-92). An Austrian writer on geography and the history of civilization; brother of Ferdinand von Hellwald, and born at Padua. He entered the Austrian Army in 1858, and was lieutenant of cavalry (1866) in the war with Prussia; from 1871 to 1873 at Augsburg, then till 1882 at Cannstatt, he was editor of Das Ausland. His many works, which are more popular than scientific, include: Maximilian I., Kaiser von Mexiko (1869); Kulturgeschichte in ihrer natürlichen Entwicklung bis zur Gegenwart (4th ed. 1896-98); Die Erde und ihre Völker (4th ed. 1897); Naturgeschichte des Menschen (1883-84); Amerika in Wort und Bild (1883-85); Frankreich in Wort und Bild (1884-87); Die menschliche Familie nach ihrer Entstehung und natürlichen Entwicklung (1889); and the posthumous work, edited by Möller, Kulturbilder (1894).