Schlagintweit
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Five brothers of the Schlagintweit family were notable explorers and scholars:
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- Hermann SchlagintweitHermann SchlagintweitHermann Schlagintweit, Sakünlünski , also known as Hermann Rudolph Alfred von Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski, was a German explorer of Central Asia....
(1826-1882) - Adolf SchlagintweitAdolf SchlagintweitAdolf von Schlagintweit was a German botanist and explorer of Central Asia. The standard author abbreviation A.Schlag. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name....
(1829-1857) - Eduard SchlagintweitEduard SchlagintweitEduard Schlagintweit was the third of the five Schlagintweit brothers of Munich.He wrote an account of the 1859-1860 Spanish-Moroccan War.He was killed in the Battle of Kissingen in 1866.-References:...
(1831-1866) - Robert SchlagintweitRobert SchlagintweitRobert Schlagintweit was a German explorer of Central Asia who also wrote about travels in America.The fourth of the five Schlagintweit brothers of Munich, at an early age he joined his brothers Hermann and Adolf in their Alpine researches, and jointly published Neue Untersuchungen über die...
(1833-1885) - Emil SchlagintweitEmil SchlagintweitEmil Schlagintweit was a German scholar noted for his work on Buddhism in Tibet.Schlagintweit was the youngest of the five Schlagintweit brothers of Munich. His father was a wealthy eye-surgeon, his mother died when he was quite young, and he was tutored by Franz Joseph Lauth, later a noted...
(1835-1904)
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- Reinhard Schlagintweit (b. 1928), head of UNICEF Germany