- Heinrich von Maltzan, Baron zu Wartenburg und Penzlin
Heinrich von Maltzan, Baron zu Wartenburg und Penzlin (
September 6 ,1826 -February 23 ,1874 ), German traveller. Born nearDresden .He studied law at
Heidelberg , but on account of ill health spent much of his time from 1850 in travel. He was a passionate traveller as well as an attentive observer and a good storyteller.Succeeding to his father's property in 1852, he extended the range of his journeys to
Morocco and other parts ofBarbary , and before his return home in 1854 had also visitedEgypt ,Palestine and other countries of theLevant . In 1856-1857 he was again inAlgeria ; in 1858 he reached the city of Morocco; and in 1860 he succeeded in performing the pilgrimage toMecca , which he afterwards described in "Meine Wallfahrt nach Mecca" (Leipzig , 1865), but had to flee for his life toJidda without visitingMedina .He then visited
Aden andBombay , and after some two years of study inEurope again began to wander through the coasts and islands of theMediterranean , repeatedly visiting Algeria. His first book of travel, "Drei Jahre im Nordwesten von Afrika" (Leipzig), appeared in 1863, and was followed by a variety of works and essays, popular and scientific. Maltzan's last book, "Reise nach Südarabien" (Brunswick, 1873), is chiefly valuable as a digest of much information about little-known parts of southArabia collected from natives during a residence atAden in 1870-1871. Among his other services to science must be noticed his collection ofPunic inscriptions ("Reise in Tunis und Tripolis", Leipzig, 1870), and the editing ofAdolph von Wrede 's remarkable journey inHadramut ("Reise in Hadramaut, &c.", Brunswick, 1870). After long suffering fromneuralgia , Maltzan died by his own hand atPisa .----
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