WISSMANN, HERMANN VON

hĕrˈmän fən vĭsˈmän, 1853–1905, German explorer in Africa. He crossed (1880–82) Africa from Luanda to Zanzibar and, on behalf of Leopold II of Belgium, explored (1883–85) the Kasai River system in the Congo basin. As German commissioner (1889–92) he suppressed an Arab revolt in German East Africa (now part of Tanzania). In the coastal area given up by the sultan of Zanzibar, he founded Moshi on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. He was (1895–96) governor of German East Africa. His writings include My Second Journey through Equatorial Africa (1891, tr. 1891).

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Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa
Book by Johannes Fabian; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Africa, Central--Description And Travel, Africa, Central--Discovery And Exploration--Belgian, Africa, Central--Discovery And Exploration--German, Ethnologists--Africa, Central--History, Ethnology--Africa, Central--Fieldwork, First Contact Of Aboriginal Peoples With Westerners--Africa, Central--History
...ecoles dorient. Wissmann, Hermann. 1889. Unter deutscher...quer durch Afrika von West nach Ost: Von...bis 1883 ausgefuhrt von Paul Pogge und Hermann Wissmann. Berlin: Walther...Chatto and Windus. Wissmann, Hermann von, Ludwig Wolf, Curt...
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China's March toward the Tropics: A Discussion of the Southward Penetration of China's Culture, Peoples, and Political Control in Relation to the Non-Han- Chinese Peoples of South China and in the Perspective of Historical and Cultural Geography
Book by Herold J. Wiens; Shoe String Press, 1954
Subjects: China--Territorial Expansion, Culture Conflict--China, Ethnic Relations--China, Migration, Internal--China
...Eric Freiherr von, Rassendynamik von Ostasien, Berlin, 1944, p...sheng, op. cit., p. 3-4. 7 Wissmann, Hermann von, Sud-Yunnan als Teilraum Ostasiens...Shanghai, 1940-41, p. 46. 10 Wissmann, op. cit., p. 12. 11 Chen...
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Origins of Art: A Psychological & Sociological Inquiry
Book by Yrjö J. Hirn; Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1900
Subjects: Aesthetics, Art, Primitive, Art--Philosophy
...Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone . I.-II. London, 1803. Wissmann Hermann von, Im innern Afrikas . 3. Aufl. Leipzig, 1891. Wissmann Hermann von, Unter deutscher Flagge qner dutch Afrika von West...
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The German Colonial Empire
Book by Woodruff D. Smith; University of North Carolina Press, 1978
Subjects: Germany--Colonies--History, Germany--Politics And Government--1871-1918
...Company, 77 , 78 Vietor, J. K. von, 70 , 143 , 218 Volkskultur , 105...32 Waterberg, 64 Weber, Ernst von, 27 Wehler, Hans-Ulrich, 19...Kaiser, 46 , 64 Windhoek, 54 , 57 Wissmann, Hermann von, 98 , 99 Witbooi, Hendrik, 53...
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The Cambridge Modern History - Vol. 13
Book by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes; Cambridge University Press, 1911
Subjects: History, Modern
...State 1614-6 , III 560 Wirsberg, F. von. See Wurzburg, Bishop of Janko and Livin von, German sectaries 1466 , I 623 Wirsung...city of, joins Protestants 1529 , n 205 Wissmann, Hermann von, African explorer, XII 811 Withers, George...
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The Extraordinary Journey of the Jaga through the Centuries: Critical Approaches to Precolonial Angolan Historical Sources*
Journal article by Beatrix Heintze; History In Africa, Vol. 34, 2007
...Bezerra), Otto Schutt (1878/79), Curt von Francois (1884/85; he got his information...by one of the participants in the second Wissmann Expedition (1884/85; either Hermann von Wissmann himself or Ludwig Wolf).89 Buchners estimation...
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Cued Speeches: the Emergence of Shauri as Colonial Praxis in German East Africa, 1850-1903
Journal article by Michael Pesek; History In Africa, Vol. 33, 2006
...expedition was no less a person than Hermann von Wissmann, then the empires most popular...negotiating tables in Europe. Hermann von Wissmann, who then had gained a reputation...rule.27 Whereas Count Adolf von Gotzen wrote in 1899 about a...
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"Not a 'cloth Giver'": Entitlement, Hunger, and Illicit Transfers on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1886-1890
Journal article by Ruth Rempel; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 39, 2006
...249 Some of those that remained became "bold aggressors," using guerilla tactics against the caravan.250 Hermann von Wissmann, traveling through the forest southwest of the Expedition in 1886-87, was able to observe the effects of systematic...
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Zwischen Abenteuer, Wissenschaftund Kolonialismus: Der Deutsche Afrikadiskurs Im 18. Und 19. Jahrhundert
Journal article by Dirk Gottsche; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Zwischen Abenteuer, Wissenschaftund Kolonialismus: Der deutsche Afrikadiskurs im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (Book)--Book reviews
...Schweinfurth, Gustav Nachtigal, Gerhart Rohlfs, and Hermann von Wissmann. Fiedler illustrates the crucial role of these publications...period and colonial literature by authors such as Frieda von Bulow and Carl Falkenhorst, whose novels celebrate...
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Mlozi of Central Africa: Trader, Slaver and Self-styled Sultan, the End of the Slaver
Journal article by John M. MacKenzie; African Research & Documentation, 2010
...suddenly dramatically widened. There were now several steamers (and the British also chartered the German vessel Hermann von Wissmann) and deployed advanced armament (but not a maxim, although one was supposed to be available in Central Africa...
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German Centers of Mission Research
Magazine article by Willi Henkel; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 21, July 1997
Subjects: Germany, History, Missionaries, Research
...protestantischen Missionen von der Reformation bis auf...Erlangen, now succeeded by Hermann Brandt; in 1957 HansWerner...who was followed by Hans Wissmann.33 From 1962 onward...been succeeded by Michael von Bruck. In 1972 Lothar...was occupied by Michael von Bruck until he moved to...


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encyclopedia articles on: Wissmann Hermann Von  - 2 results

 
 
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Wissmann, Hermann Von
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WISSMANN, HERMANN VON her man f n vis man, 1853 1905, German explorer in Africa. He crossed (1880 82) Africa from Luanda to Zanzibar and, on behalf...
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Kananga
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of a region where cotton is grown and diamonds are mined. The city was founded in 1884 by the German explorer Hermann von Wissmann . In 1895, Batetela troops stationed there revolted after their chief was executed by authorities of the Belgian...


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