Georg Wilhelm Schimper
In Abyssinia. Observations on Tigre
Bibliography
ARCHIVAL
SOURCES.
Basel:
06.02.1862,
Letter by G. W. Schimper, Adwa, to Bishop Samuel Gobat, Jerusalem.
Spittler Privatarchiv PA 653, Staats-Archiv des Kantons
Basel-Stadt, Switzerland.
Berlin, Geheimes Staatsarchiv:
Purchase
of the collections of Wilhelm Schimper, 1868-1872:
Geheimes
Staatsarchiv. Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Berlin. I. HA Rep. 76
Kultusministerium, VC Wissenschaftssachen Sekt 1 Tit. XII. Nr. 207.
HA Rep. 89 Geheimes Zivilkabinett, Jüngere Periode
and
Geheimes
Staatsarchiv, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Brandenburg Preußisches
Hausarchiv, Rep. 51 König (Kaiser) Wilhelm I.
15.04.1868,
Dr. Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper in Magdala to Graf Otto von Bismarck,
Berlin. Printed in newspaper 15.6.1868, see entry for Bremen.
17.08.1868,
Justus Olshausen / Adalbert Falk, Berlin, to Dr. Heinrich von Mühler, Berlin.
10.11.1868,
Georg Wilhelm Schimper, Adoa, to Alexander Braun, Berlin.
22.12.1868,
Dr. G.H.W. Schimper Freiherr von Furtenbach, Adoa, to Alexander Braun, Berlin.
29.12.1868, Gerhard Rohlfs, Tripolis in der Barbarei, to unnamed persons
or institutions, Berlin, possibly to von Thile (see following letter).
20.01.1869,
Justus Olshausen / Hermann von Thile, Berlin, to Heinrich von Mühler, Berlin.
09.03.1869,
Justus Olshausen, Berlin, to Graf Otto von Bismarck, Berlin.
16.03.1869,
Ernst Friedrich Gurlt, Director of Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu
Berlin. Printed article in Sitzungs-Bericht
der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, listing the preserved
specimens of animals sent by Schimper in 22 leather-wrapped parcels.
25.03.1869,
Hermann von Thile, Berlin, to Heinrich von Mühler, Berlin.
28.03.1869,
Hermann von Thile, Berlin, to Alexander Braun, Berlin.
07.04.1869,
L. Bronn, Suez, to Otto von Bismarck, Berlin.
21.04.1869,
Hermann von Thile, Berlin, to Heinrich von Mühler, Berlin.
27.04.1869,
Alexander Braun, Gustav Rose, Heinrich Ernst Beyrich, Berlin to Heinrich von
Mühler, Berlin.
30.04.1869,
Wilhelm Peters, Berlin, to Heinrich von Mühler, Berlin.
10.05.1869,
Alexander Braun, Berlin, to Otto von Bismarck, Berlin.
13.05.1869,
Hermann von Thile, Berlin, to Heinrich von Mühler, Berlin.
20.05.1869,
Adalbert Falk, Berlin, to August von der Heydt, Berlin.
30.05.1869,
August von der Heydt, Berlin, to Heinrich von Mühler.
29.06.1869,
Otto von Bismarck, August von der Heydt, Adalbert Falk, Berlin, to King Wilhelm
II.
03.07.1869,
King Wilhelm II., Schloß Babelsberg, Potsdam, to Otto von Bismarck, August von
der Hedt, Adalbert Falk, Berlin.
19.07.1869,
Adalbert Falk, Berlin, to August von der Heydt, Otto von Bismarck, Berlin.
20.07.1869,
Justus Olshausen, Berlin, to Alexander Braun, Berlin.
27.07.1869,
by order of August von der Heydt, Berlin, to Heinrich von Mühler, Berlin.
06.10.1871,
Wilhelm Schimper, Adoa, to Heinrich von Mühler, Berlin.
22.03.1872,
Hermann von Thile, Berlin, to Adalbert Falk, Berlin.
09.04.1872,
Justus Olshausen, Berlin, to Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, Berlin.
27.04.1872,
Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, Berlin, to Adalbert Falk, Berlin.
28.05.1872, Otto von Bismarck, Gottfried Ludolf
Camphausen, Adalbert Falk to Emperor and King Wilhelm II, Berlin.
04.07.1872, Wilhelm II, Berlin, to Rudolf von Delbrück, on behalf of
Otto von Bismarck, Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, Adalbert Falk, Berlin.
Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde:
The museum
received 22 chests [called ‘Ledercolli’ by Schimper] with collections from
Schimper in 1868, small stuffed animals, furs, rock samples. Reference: Zool.
Mus, S II, Schimper, G.H.W., Blatt 1-18.
Berlin,
Staatsbibliothek:
04.06.1834, letter by G. W. Schimper in Carlsruhe to
Philipp Wilhelm Schimper. Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Handschriftenabteilung HS014651597. Sig.
Darmstädter/Forschungsreisen/Afrika. 1836.
Without
date, Note by or on Schimper, Varia. Staatsbibliothek Berlin,
Handschriftenabteilung, HS01465156X. Darmstädter/Afrika/1836. Acc. 1938.18.
25.12.1855, letter by G. W. Schimper in Amba Sea to
Theodor von Heuglin. Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Handschriftenabteilung HS014651597. Sig.
Darmstädter/Forschungsreisen/Afrika. Acc. 1938.18
Braunschweig:
06.05.1860, Letter by G. W. Schimper, in Adwa, to
Bernhard Gerhard, German Consul in Massawah. Stadtarchiv H III 3: 16 Vol.6.
Bremen:
Collection of manuscript letters by and about G. W. Schimper, Museum Schloss
Schönebeck. Günter Bolte, Bremen.
09.03.1868,
Alexander Braun, Berlin, to Otto von Bismarck, Berlin.
28.4.1868, Hermann von Thile, Berlin, to Gerhard
Rohlfs, in the Royal Britannic headquarters, Abyssinia.
08.05.1868, Karl
Albert Julius Hellmuth von Jasmund, Alexandria, to Gerhard Rohlfs, Zoola.
15.06.1868,
printed ‘Dankschreiben des in Abessinien gefangenen deutschen Gelehrten Dr.
Schimper an den Grafen von Bismarck.’ Letter by
G. W. Schimper to Otto von Bismarck, written in Magdala on 15.4.1868, printed in
Der Haussekretär, 15.6.1868; in it he
mentions his geographical, geological and botanical research papers which he
will send to Germany and wants von Bismarck to deposit them in the Natural
History Museum, Berlin.
18.09.1871,
Heinrich von Maltzan, Wiesbaden, to Gerhard Rohlfs.
23.09.1871,Gerhard
Rohlfs, Weimar, to Heinrich von Maltzan.
12.05.1872,
Wilhelm Koner, Berlin, to Gerhard Rohlfs.
31.05.1872, Adolf
Kreidel, Karlsruhe, to Gerhard Rohlfs.
06.06.1872,
Gerhard Rohlfs, Weimar, to Ludwig Krapf, Kornthal bei Stuttgart.
07.06.1872,
Gerhard Rohlfs, Weimar, to Ludwig Kraof, Kornthal.
16.07.1872,
Ludwig Krapf, Kornthal, to Gerhard Rohlfs.
22.07.1872, Gerhard Rohlfs, Weimar, to Georg August
Schweinfurth.
24.07.1872, on behalf of Otto von Bismarck, Berlin, to
Gerhard Rohlfs, Weimar.
27.07.1872,
Ludwig Krapf, Kornthal, to Otto von Bismarck.
05.08.1872, Ludwig Krapf, Basel, to Gerhard Rohlfs.
16.08.1872,
Ludwig Krapf, Kornthal, to Gerhard Rohlfs.
Erlangen:
30.06.1843, Letter
by G. W. Schimper, from Amba Sea, to Hofrat Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, in
München. University Library Ms. 2640. On fire arms, Catholicism, colony.
Karlsruhe
(?):
23.05.1868,
Letter/report by G. W. Schimper to Leopold I., Grand Duke of Baden. [Mentioned in Schimper’s article ‘Meine Gefangenschaft in Abessinien’, in Petermann’s geographische Mittheilungen,
1868, 294.]
London,
British Library:
‘Map, profiles and appendices
to ‘Observations on the Botany of Tigre’; n.d. Bound together with ‘The map of
Begemder trigonometrically planned by Dr. Schimper. 1864/65’. London, British
Library, Add Ms. 28506.
‘Observations on
the Botany of Tigré’. 1868. London, British Library, Add Ms.
28505.
London,
Kew Herbarium:
27.05.1862,
letter by W. Schimper to W. J. Hooker, London, Kew Garden (in German). 337-338.
27.05.1862,
letter by W. Schimper to Captain Charles Duncan Cameron, British consul in
Ethiopia (in French). 339-3418.
27.05.1862,
letter by Charles Duncan Cameron to Hooker. 70-71.
All three in
London, Royal Botanical Society, Kew, Director’s Correspondence, vol. 60,
African Letters, 1859-1865.
London,
Natural History Museum:
1864/65,
Profiles of mountain ranges in Ethiopia. On one large sheet 14 tables, long
captions and entries for numbers for rock samples sent from Ethiopia, near
identical to London, BL, Add Ms 28506, f. 17, with 15 Tables and numbers for
rock samples. Special Col. Mss (63) Sch 1 Manuscript Shelves.
Marbach:
18.12.1875,
letter by G. W. Schimper in Adoa to J.G. Cotta’sche Bunchhandlung/Stuttgart. Deutsches Literaturarchiv/Marbach,Neckar/Handschriftenabteilung.
Nuremberg:
27.3.1836, letter to Jacques Etienne Gay,
from Cosseir, in Egypt. Germanisches Nationalmusum Nürnberg, VI. Reisende, Deutschland.
Paris, Jardin des Plantes, Botanical
Library of the Museum:
April 1847, G. W. Schimper’s Treatise on treatment for
tapeworm, written in Adwa.
June 1847, G. W. Schimper’s treatise on the climate in
Ethiopia, ‘Einiges über klimatische Verhältnisse in Abyssinien’, written in
Adwa.
16.07.1847, letter
by G. W. Schimper in Adwa to Achille Richard [French botanist] in Paris, 46 rue
d’Enfer, accompanying a parcel of ‘objects of natural history’.
Not dated, summer of 1852, Aide Mémoire,
written by G. W. Schimper in ‘Debr’ Eski’ [=Däräsge Maryam] on rabies in general
and on having been bitten by a dog and Schimper’s treatment and observations.]
1853-1854, Catalogue des plantes d’Abyssinie, envoyées au
museum par M. Schimper, en 1853 et 1854. 18 pages, with a
list of Latin names of plants numbering from 1 to 1730, some with questions
marks, some crossed out and corrected.
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Landesarchiv:
14.09.1831 – 21.04.1844, a large collection of papers
(180) in connection with Georg Wilhelm Schimper and Dr. Anton Wiest, their
requests for funds, their travel to Cairo, Wiest’s death and Schimper’s
collection activity. Collections: E 70t Bü 208; E 40/59 Bü 104; E 200 Bü 449;
E 14 Bü. Included are nine autograph letters from
G. W. Schimper:
07.03.1834, Schimper, Stuttgart, to Joseph Ignaz Beroldingen, Foreign
Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg, 3 p. [Schimper refers to his audience
with the King on 02.03.1834]; the King has agreed to finance Schimper’s
equipment as companion of Dr. Wiest and to commission him with the King’s own
requests concerning agriculture and horse breeding. Wiest and Schimper are
commissioned by the Württembergische Reiseverein. They will travel to Trieste,
Alexandria, Cairo, Suez, Sinai, Horeb, Bab el Mandeb.
Requests letters of recommendation to the Egyptian government, Austria and
England will also write letters for them to their respective consulates in
Alexandria. The Austrian support is crucial, the
consulate in Alexandria might be their main place of contact. The English
support is crucial for the travels in Africa. The French customs officers in
Marseille have destroyed Schimper’s precious collection in 1833. Requests a document to the Austrian government to allow the free
and unhindered passage of Schimper’s scientific collection through Austrian
customs offices in Trieste.
23.06.1834, Schimper, Stuttgart, to
‘Generalleutnant’. 1 p. Schimper requests forwarding of his letter to the King.
24.06.1834, Schimper, Stuttgart, to William I, King of Württemberg,
4 p. Thanks the King for financial support for Wiest and Schimper for their
trip to Arabia. Their departure wa delayed as Schimper
had to wait for funds from Karlsruhe. But Schimper used the time to work on the
sketches he made in Algiers for the King. They are not works of art, but true
to nature. His book on his work in Algiers will be sent to the King. Schimper
has also seen to it to learn about horse breeding, Colonel [Sigmund?] von
Gemmingen has given him instructions. Schimper promises to perform the King’s
requests diligently.
20.08.1835, Schimper, Am Berge Sinai, to
‘Staatssecretaire’ [Christian Ludwig August von Vellnagel], Stuttgart, 8 p. Reports
on the mishaps which he had experienced in the previous 12 months. Thanks him for his help after the
shipwreck of Schimper and Wiest in Cephalonia. As the plague was in Alexandria,
they moved to Cairo, where Wiest died. Due to the plague Schimper could not
learn anything about horse breeding. The English Consul General in Cairo
introduced Schimper to the Pasha who kindly gave him letters of
recommendations. The audience lasted many hours, the Pasha Mohammed Ali stressed
that he has done the greatest service to Egypt, he has
changed the climate by planting trees. They had rain and no plague for ten
years. But the last plague came from Smyrna and decimated half of Cairo, 75,000
people. The villages only have women and children, as men are forced into the
army. Schimper’s view on Christians and Muslims.
Describes the St Catherine monastery, where he has stayed for the last five
months, describes the Arabs, their livelihood, food, transport, etc. Describes
manna, the plant; describes Suez, will soon go down the Red Sea, then return
and travel to the Lebanon. At present he is not well, work is just too much.
Thanks for the recommendations to the authorities in Trieste, Gotthelf Kern, the royal Württemberg consul in Trieste was very obliging;
requests Vellnagel to forward the enclosed letter of thanks to the King.
20.08.1835, Schimper, Am Berge Sinai, to William I, King of Württemberg,
4 p, end missing. Repeats his report to Vellnagel.
Shipwreck in Cephalonia, death of Wiest in Cairo. Schimper could not fulfil his
commission, to report on the agriculture and the peoples in Egypt. Left Cairo
in March 1835, arrived in St. Catherine’s in April,
living in his tent in the garden of the monastery. He made forays into the
desert. He has collected plants and already sent them to Esslingen. Thanks the
King for a further financial donation. Due to the plague there were no
foodstuffs; the Arabs plundered the people; cholera also devastated many lives.
Describes Mount Sinai. Thinks that
people at the time of Moses and the magicians lived in a different context with
nature and god. His botanical research was successful, but not agricultural investigations, the place is a desert. He
will go to the coast of the Red Sea and then to visit the Druses of the Lebanon.
03.12.1836, Schimper, writing from Yamba,
on the Red Sea, posting the letter in Jeddah on 10.12.1836, to ‘Staatsminister’
Christian Ludwig August von Vellnagel, 3 p. After reporting on completion of his work
for the Reiseverein in 1835 he informed Vellnagel that he wanted to travel to
the Lebanon to study horse breeding. But when in Suez he was told by the
Reiseverein to go to Arabia Felix as King William I has
sent another person to study horse breeding in the Lebanon. Schimper arrived in
Jeddah in October 1835 and went on trips to the interior of the country as well
as to Mecca and collected plants for the Reiseverein. In March 1836 he
travelled to Upper Egypt, working until September 1836 as zoologist. Thanks to Daniel
von Dumreicher, the Danish consul in Alexandria, Schimper could continue with
his work, as von Dumreicher advanced him monies promised by the Reiseverein. Schimper
could not send many notes on horse breeding to the director of the Royal stud,
Colonel von Gemmingen. Schimper is on his way to Abyssinia, repeats the request
by the Reiseverein and hopes to receive funds from the Ministry of the
Interior. Schimper asked August von Hartman, Privy Councillor, to submit papers
to von Vellnagel in preparation of von Vellnagel submitting Schimper’s letter
to the King.
15.06.1840, Schimper, to Privy Councillor von Hartmann, Stuttgart,
sent from Adoa on 08.07.1840, Schimper was ill and went to Massawah to return
to Germany, but the climate was bad so that he returned to the high mountains
of Northern Ethiopia. This enabled him to complete his botanical studies, the
most complete collection of the Ethiopian flora up to a height of 14200 foot.
As he cannot return for health reasons he wants to use his time to research the
flora of the land of the sources of the Nile. Refers to
financial difficulties. Refers to his letter to the
King.
08.07.1840, Schimper, Adoa, to William I, King of Württemberg, 1
p. Requests financial help to enable him to visit the sources of the Nile to
collect plants for the Reiseverein. He cannot travel in the low lying regions
because of health reasons so that he cannot return to Egypt.
30.06.1843, Schimper, Amba Sea in Abyssinien [Schimper’s country
estate], to William I, King of Württemberg, 3 p. Long story
of how rich the country is, but how poor the people are. Duke Ubié [Webe Haylä
Maryam] has unified many parts of the country and wishes to enter into friendly
contacts with Germany. Stresses that the country is Christian
and that Webe needs more weapons to complete his task of unifying the country.
Schimper asks the King for the gift of a few hundred firearms for Webe and a
number of firearms for Schimper’s private use. Schimper can thank the King only
now as he has not had any post for three years. He could not travel to the
sources of the Nile, asks for the King’s pardon.
Breakdown of monies received (in total 3200 f.) between 13.03.1834
and 24.12.1840. In E 14, Bü 1578, 39.
Vienna, Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv:
15.01.1835
Staatskanzlei, K 47, Notes to the Hofkammer 1835, ‘wegen schonender Behandlung des von dem Dr. Wiest und Schimper eingesendeten,der Würtembergischen Regierung gehörigen naturhistorischen
Gegenstände, während der Quarantaine in Triest’. (Request
for careful storage of botanical specimens during the time of quarantine in
Trieste.)
29.01.1835
Staatskanzlei, K 150, Notes from the Hofkammer 1834, X – 1835, III, order from
Hofkammer to the administration in Trieste to take every care with the boxes
sent from Alexandria whilst clearing customs; however, the Hofkammer cannot
give orders to the quarantine authorities in Trieste.
12.01.1841,
G. W. Schimper to Consul General of Austria, Anton Ritter von Laurin, in
Alexandria. Staatskanzlei, Konsulate. Alexandrien 1817-1860.
24.01.1841,
G. W. Schimper to Fanz Champion, Vice Consul of Austria in Cairo. Staatskanzlei, Konsulate. Alexandrien 1817-1860.
16.05.1841,
Consul General of Austria, Anton Ritter von Laurin, in Alexandria to
Staatskanzler Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich. Staatskanzlei, Konsulate.
Alexandrien 1817-1860.
30.11.1843,
Hofkammer Präsidial-Erlass. Karl Friedrich von Kübeck, to Consul General of
Austria in Alexandria, Anton Ritter von Laurin.
HHStA, Staatskanzlei - K 171, Notes by the
Hofkammer 1846 VII - 1847 IV on
‘Österr.
Handelsunternehmung nach Ägypten und Abyssinien insbesondere nach Antitscho;
Mitteilung von Dr. Schimper darunter ein Geschenk mit 200 Feuergewehren zu
machen’ (‘Austrian commercial mission to Egypt and Abyssinia, in particular to
Entitcho; Information from Dr. Schimper, request to make a gift of 200
firearms’.) Three letters:
19.03.1847,
Hofkammer Präsidial-Erlass . Vienna, 1846, VII-1847, IV. Karton 171, folio
1448-1451. Kübeck to Metternich.
27.04.1847, Consul
General in Alexandria, Anton Ritter von Laurin, to Staatskanzler Metternich.
Staatskanzlei, Konsulate. Alexandrien 1817-1860.
18.09.1847,
Consul General in Alexandria, Anton Ritter von Laurin, to Bartholomäus Graf von
Stürmer, Internuntius in Constantinople and from him to Friedrich von Kübeck.
Vienna, Staatskanzlei, Konsulate, K2, Alexandrien 1817-1860.
30.11.1860, Diplomatic
correspondence from the Austrian Consulate, Cairo, no. 35/51 with the enclosure
of a report by the Hamburg merchant Bernhard Gerhard and Wilhelm Schimper
’Kurzer Bericht über Abyssinien’, written in October 1860 in Alexandria. Administrative Registratur, Fach 8, Konsulate, Karton 31, Massauah. 35/51.
Published by Rudolf Agstner, Von Kaisern
und Konsuln. Addis Ababa: Austrian Embassy - Addis Ababa
Occasional Papers, vol. 1, 2007, 5-15.
Without
indication of place, for sale by the Auction House Hans Lugmair, 1060 Vienna,
Linke Wienzeile 40, November 2013.
‘Kurze
Nachricht über meine Reisen vom Merz 1835 bis Merz 1837… Adoa,
1837’.
28 folios, 15 illustrations in pencil, 2 in ink; one sheet
with notes by Christian Friedrich Hochstetter.
18.02.1839,
Wilh.
Schimper in Halai [Ethiopia] to Dr. Steudel and Prof.
Hochstetter [Esslingen].
18.04.1838, Copy
of letter by G. W. Schimper in Adoa [the orginal was possibly sent to
Reiseverein in Esslingen] to von Laurin [in Alexandria].
1839-1840,
Copies of letters by and to Schimper by, among others, Anton von Laurin, Aidin
Aga, governor of Massawa, Alexander Ogilvie, British Consul in Jeddah, Dr.
Antoine Petit, French botanist and Negus Yohannes III.
Two
Letters to G. W. Schimper published in Giustino de Jacobis, Scritti. 2. Epistolario. Roma: CLV –
Edizioni Vincenziane, 2003.
1, Giustino de
Jacobis, Immaculata College, Gwala, to G. W. Schimper, Amba Sea, Anticho.
18.10.1847. Original in French, in the published version translated into
Italian. In the collection Lettres
manuscrites, Paris: Generalate of the Congregation of Mission St. Vincent
de Paul, vol. II-ACGR, 897-898. Polite request for
accommodation for two Capuchin missionaries.
2, Giustino de
Jacobis, mission station in Halay, to G. W. Schimper, without indication of
location. 18.04.1858, Original in French, in the published version translated
into Italian. In the collection Lettres
manuscrites, Paris: Generalate of the Congregation of Mission St. Vincent
de Paul, vol. II-ACGR, 1500-1503. Complains against Schimper’s comments against
De Jacobis, airs his dismay about Schimper’s treatment of his wife and
Schimper’s attendance, as a Catholic, at the public profession of his ‘coptic
faith’ by Mr. M. N.
ROCK SPECIMENS:
Museum Humbold
Universität, Mineraliensammlung, Berlin. 6 Gesteinsproben, von G. W. Schimper
geschickt, 5 specimens quartz, between Amba Berra and Biel Ben, 1 specimen
agate, Aksum. [Recte: Biet
Bandälion]; n.d., with collections of 1868-1872.
Natural
History Museum, London. Received in 1869,
‘British Museum Natural History Register of the Collection of Minerals’. 90
specimens, nos. 42917-43006, published by G. T. Prior, ‘Riebeckite in Trachytic
Rocks from Abyssinia’, in Mineralogical
Magazine, 1899, XII, 92-95; ibidem:
‘Aegirine and Riebeckite Anorthoclase Rocks’, in Mineralogical Magazine, London, 1900, 255-273
LITERATUR:
Georg Wilhelm Schimper:
Wilhelm Schimper’s Reise nach Algier in den Jahren 1831
und 1832. Herausgegeben von der Direktion
des Würtembergischen naturhistorischen Reisevereins (Ch. F. Hochstetter and E.
J. Steudel). Stuttgart: Verlag der J. B. Metzler’schen Buchhandlung, 1834.
‘Wilhelm
Schimpers Reise von Adoa in Abyssinien an den Tacazé und in das Semengebirge,
vom November 1839 bis Mai 1840’. Die
Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung 1843, Supplement:
no. 33, 02.02.1843, 258-260.
no. 34, 03.02.1843, 265-267.
no. 35, 04.02.1843, 273-274.
no. 36, 05.02.1843, 281-282.
no. 272, 29.09.1843,
2125-2127.
no. 273, 30.09.1843,
2133-2134.
‘Bericht aus
und über Abyssinien’, dated Amba Sea, November 1849. Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der kaiserlichen
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien: K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Jg. 1852,
Heft 1-V, 1852, 227-239.
‘Meine
Gefangenschaft in Abessinien’. Petermann’s
geographische Mittheilungen, 14, Gotha, 1868, vol. 8, 294-298. [With
list of hostages.]
‘Neues aus
Abessinien’. Zeitschrift der
Gesellschaft für Erdkunde, Berlin: D. Reimer, 7, 1872, 270-272.
‘Miscellen.
Nachrichten Dr. Schimper’s über die gegenwärtigen Zustände Abyssiniens’, to
Vice Consul Gustav Brüning, in Zeitschrift
der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde, Berlin: D. Reimer, 7, 1872, 364-366.
‘Mittheilungen
aus einem Briefe Dr. W. Schimper’s an Herrn J. B. Batka in Prag’, in Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde,
Berlin: D. Reimer, 7, 1872, 484-486.
‘Die
geologischen und physikalischen Verhältnisse des Districts Arrho und der
Salzhandel in Abyssinien’, written in Adwa, March 1875. Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde, Berlin: D. Reimer, 1877,
vol. 12, 109-116.
Sekundärliteratur:
Charles Tilson Beke, A Diary Written During a Journey to Abyssinia, 1843. [The manuscript
diary is kept in The British Library, Add Ms 30249, it features a description
of Beke meeting Schimper and attending his wedding in Adwa.]
Annie Betts, Tony Betts, A Princess in the Famiily: the Story of Georg
Wilhelm Schimper and his Descendants from 1804 to 1968, Burgess Hill:
Domtom Publishing Ltd., 2010.
Gerald Colloseus, Ein österreichisches Schicksal? Analyse von Kolonialprojekten am
Beispiel der Mission Tegetthoffs und Heuglins ins Rote Meer 1857/58, MA
Dissertation. Vienna, University of Vienna, 2008.
Jacques de Coursac, Une page de l’histoire
d’Éthiopie.Le Règne de Yohannès depuis son avenèment jusqu’à ses victoires de
1875 sur l’armée égyptienne. D’après les papiers de M. E. de Sarzec,
Vice-consul de France à Massaouah, Paris:
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Schimper’s works as translator/letter writer for Yohannes IV, descriptions of
his family life and his daughter.]
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Jan
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Alexandre Girard, Souvenirs d’un voyage en Abyssinie (1868-1869), Le Caire: Librarie
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Hans Götz, Kindheit und Jugend der Brüder Karl und Wilhelm Schimper, and Karl
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Gerd Gräber, ‘Unterwegs in Abessinien. Das
Photoalbum der Royal Engineers und die britische Magdala-Expedition im Jahre
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Gerd Gräber, ‘Die befreiten Geiseln Kaiser
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Gerd Gräber, ‘Georg Wilhelm Schimpers
abessinische Zeit (1837-1878), Zum 120. Todesjahr (Oktober 1998) des Mannheimer
Äthiopienforschers und Ehrenmitglieds des Vereins für Naturkunde Mannheim
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Ernst Julius Gurlt, ‘Sitzungs-Bericht der
Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin am 16. März
1869’. Mitteilung von W. Peters, ‘dass die
naturwissenschaftlichen Sammlungen, welche Hr. Dr. Schimper in Abyssinien nach
seiner Befreiung aus der Gefangenschaft geschenkt hat, in 22 Ledercollis
vortrefflich erhalten, angelangt seien und berichtete über den zoologischen
Teil’. Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1869, 7-8.
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Abyssinien, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Zoologie und Geographie unternommen in
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Theodor von Heuglin, ’Nachrichten über die
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Rainer Loose, ‘Passion und Profession: der
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Esslinger Studien, ed. by Joachim
J. Halbkann, vol. 45, 2006, 82-140.
Mannheimer Unterhaltungsblatt, Beilage zum Mannheimer
Journal. ‘Vermischte Nachrichten’, No. 13, note about G. W. Schimper, reprint from Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, of
December 1855, no. 365.
Reply
by G. W. Schimper’s brother Dr. Karl Friedrich Schimper, Schwetzingen,
23.2.1856.
Dorothea McEwan, ‘A short biography and appraisal of Georg Wilhelm Schimper’. Typescript. Kew, Herbarium, August 2008.
Dorothea McEwan, ‘Botanist and Explorer, Geologist and Mapmaker in Northern Ethiopia 1837 to 1878’, Wolbert G. C. Smidt and Sophia Thubauville (eds.), Cultural Research in Northeastern Africa – German Histories and Stories. Special issue of ITYOPIS, Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. Publication of the Frobenius Institut. Frankfurt, 2015, 79-103.
Dorothea McEwan, ‘An Evaluation of Georg Wilhelm Schimper’s Botanical, Topographical and Mineralogical Research Papers of Tigray’, in Orbis Aethiopicus, Beiträge zur Geschichte, Religion und Kunst Äthiopiens. Band XII: Äthiopische Kulturgeschichte von Aksum bis zum Vorabend des dritten Milleniums. Hsg. von Walter Raunig und Prinz Asfa-Wossen Asserate. Dettelbach 2013, 55-84. ISBN 978-3-89754-433-8.
Dorothea McEwan, ‘Georg Wilhelm Schimpers „Aide mémoire“ über Tollwut’. Orbis Aethiopicus, Beiträge zur Geschichte, Religion und Kunst Äthiopiens. Walter Raunig und Prinz Asfa-Wossen Asserate (Hsg.), Band XV, Dettelbach: J. H. Röll, 2016, 105-110. ISBN: 978-3-89754-480-2.
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Dorothea McEwan, ‘Georg Wilhelm Schimper (1804-1878). Maps and cross-sectional profiles of Tigray, the Semen Mountains and the Märäb and Täkkäze regions of Ethiopa’. Journal of the International Map Collectors’ Society ( IMCoS), London, June 2020 edition, 7-17.
Dorothea McEwan, ‘On How to Obtain Guns for Ethopia. The attempts by the Botanist Georg Wilhelm Schimper in the 1840s and early 1850s’, Annales d’Éthiopie, 2022, 34, 323–342.
Richard F.
von Neimans and Wilhelm Schimper, ‘Über die politischen
Zustände Abessiniens. Ausland,
31, Stuttgart und Augsburg: Verlag der J. G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1858,
877-880.
George
T. Prior, ‘Ægirine and Riebeckite
Anorthoclase Rocks Related to the “Grorudite-Tinguaite” Series, from the Neighbourhood of Adowa and Axum, Abyssinia’, Mineralogical
Magazine, London, 1900, vol. 12,
255-273 (with Schimper’s mountain profiles).
Albert Rodatz, ‘Auszug aus dem Tagebuch des Capitän
Alb. Rodatz, Schiff ‘Alf’, betreffend einen Besuch von Massowah aus bei Dr.
Schimper im Inneren von Abessinien, und Weiterreise von Massoah bis zur
Umschiffung des Cap Guardafui’ . Das Ausland.
Ein Tagblatt für Kunde des geistigen und sittlichen Lebens der Völker,
Stuttgart und Augsburg, 1846, vol. 19, 127-128, 131-132, 136, 139-140, 143-144,
147-148, 151-152, 159-160, 163- 164, 168, 171-172, 175-176, 180, 183- 184.
Gerhard Rohlfs, Land und Volk in Afrika. Berichte aus den Jahren 1865-1870, Bremen:
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Gerhard Rohlfs, ‘Ergebnisse meiner Reise nach
Abessinien; Bemerkungen zur Karte’. Petermann’s geogr. Mittheilungen,
vol. 28, 1882, 401-405, with Schimper’s map of Adwa and Aksum.
Gerhard Rohlfs, Meine Mission nach Abessinien: auf Befehl Sr. Maj.des Deutschen Kaisers
im Winter 1880/81 unternommen; mit zwanzig Separatbildern und einer Karte.
Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1883.
Alexander Sadebeck, ‘Geognostische Skizze der
Umgebung von Axum und Adoa in Tigre’, nach den Aufnahmen von W. Schimper,
bearbeitet von A. Sadebeck, mit einem Nachwort von Richard Kiepert. Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde, zu
Berlin, 1869, Tafel IV and V, 347-352.
Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, Original-Aufsätze. Ueber die Arten von Cyperus, Mariscus und Kyllingia,
welche in der zweiten Sendung von Pflanzen aus Abyssinien von dem Reisenden des
Vereins Hrn. W. Schimper enthalten sind; von Oberamtsarzt Dr. Steudel in
Esslingen. Flora oder botanische
Zeitung: welche Recensionen, Abhandlungen, Aufsätze, Neuigkeiten und Nachrichten,
die Botanik betreffend, enthält, hsg. von der königl. Botanischen
Gesellschaft in Regensburg. 1. Teil: Nr. 37, 7. Okt. 1842, 577-585; 2. Teil:
Nr. 38, 14. Okt. 1842, 593-605.
George-Emile Strohl, (military pharmacist), ‘Deux
nouveaux medicaments tènifuges: le saoria et le
tatzé’. Gazette Hebdomadaire, Paris,
25.8.1854, 784.
Wolbert Smidt, ‘”Annäherung Deutschlands und
Aethiopiens”: Unbekannte Briefe des Kaisers Menelik II. und seines Gesandten
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Unknown,
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