17-763: Schomburgk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865), German-born explorer for Great Britain in the nineteenth century (whose botanical abbreviation is R.H.Schomb. ) Moritz Richard Schomburgk (1811–1891), his brother, director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden (whose botanical abbreviation is M.R.Schomb. ) Hans Schomburgk (1880–1967), German explorer and filmmaker Heinrich Schomburgk (1885–1965), German tennis player John Richard Schomburgk Evans , Australian architect in practice with F. Kenneth Milne 1920–1930 See also [ edit ] Schomburgkia
34-498: A genus of orchids [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Schomburgk . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schomburgk&oldid=1220030160 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
51-590: A geographical and statistical description of the island, later to be published as the History of Barbados published in 1848 by Cass as a library series of West Indian studies. In 1848, he was appointed British consul to the Dominican Republic . In 1850, he signed an advantageous commercial treaty for Great Britain and also secured a truce from Soulouque on behalf of the Dominican government. During
68-670: A role in the arbitration of the southern boundary between British Guiana and Brazil , with arbitration by the King of Italy in 1904. On the brothers' return to London in June 1844, Schomburgk presented a report of his journey to the Geographical Society, for which he was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1845, and continued in other official capacities. In 1846, he was stationed in Barbados , where he gathered information to compile
85-538: A time. In the same year, he became a partner in a tobacco factory at Richmond . The factory was burned down, and Schomburgk was ruined. He suffered further setbacks on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas , where he lost all his belongings in a fire. Consequently, he ceased his business activities. In 1830, he left for Anegada , one of the Virgin Isles , notorious for its shipwrecks. Although he did not possess
102-506: Is at Kew and his ethnographical collection from Guyana is at the British Museum . ' Victoria (plant) See text. Victoria or giant waterlily is a genus of water-lilies, in the plant family Nymphaeaceae , with very large green leaves that lie flat on the water's surface. Victoria boliviana has a leaf that is up to 3 metres (9.8 ft) in width, on a stalk up to 8 metres (26 ft) in length. The genus name
119-625: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Robert Hermann Schomburgk Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (5 June 1804 – 11 March 1865) was a Holy Roman Empire-born explorer for Great Britain who carried out geographical, ethnological and botanical studies in South America and the West Indies, and also fulfilled diplomatic missions for the United Kingdom in the Dominican Republic and Thailand . Schomburgk
136-452: The " Schomburgk Line ", and the boundary with the Dutch colony of Surinam . He also made further geographical and ethnological observations and was joined there by his brother, Moritz Richard . He repeatedly urged fixing the boundary with Brazil , motivated by his encounters with Brazilian enslavement of local Indian tribes, most of which no longer exist. Schomburgk's survey later played
153-490: The following years, he contributed valuable papers about the physical geography of the island to the journal of the Royal Geographical Society. For example, he became the first recorded person in history to climb Hispaniola's (and the entire Caribbean's) highest mountain, Pico Duarte , in 1851, naming it "Monte Tina" and almost measuring its height correctly at 3,140 metres (10,300 ft). In 1857, he
170-480: The genus was by John Lindley in 1837, based on specimens returned from British Guiana by Robert Schomburgk . Lindley named the genus after the new Queen, Victoria, and the species Victoria regia . An earlier account of the species, Euryale amazonica Poeppig , in 1832 described an affinity with Euryale ferox . A collection and description was also made by the French botanist Aimé Bonpland in 1825. The leaf
187-583: The special knowledge that is required for such work, he surveyed the island at his own expense and sent to the Royal Geographical Society (London) a report which created such an impression that, in 1835, he was entrusted by that body with conducting an expedition of exploration of British Guiana . He fulfilled his mission (1835–1839) with great success, incidentally discovering the giant Victoria Regia water lily in 1837 and many new species of orchids, one genus of which, Schomburgkia ,
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#1732776580415204-717: The study of books. Based in Bangkok , he also continued his geographical surveys. The letter gives a short account of his visit to the semi-independent kingdom of Chiang Mai in 1859–60, and thence by elephant across the mountain range to Moulmein on the Bay of Bengal , returning to Bangkok after a trip of 135 days and approximately 1000 English miles. He retired from the public service in 1864, hampered by health problems, and died in Schöneberg in Berlin on 11 March 1865. Schomburgk
221-714: Was a member of various European, American, and Asiatic learned societies, and was a knight of the Legion of Honour and of the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle . Schomburgk's deer ( Rucervus schomburgki ) was named after him. The South American fishes Mylesinus schomburgkii ( Valenciennes , 1850) , Polycentrus schomburgkii ( Müller & Troschel , 1849) and Myloplus schomburgkii ( Jardine , 1841) are named after him. Many special of Neotropical plants are named for him: His botanical collection
238-622: Was born at Freyburg , Prussian Saxony , a son of Johann Friedrich Ludwig Schomburgk, a Protestant minister. In 1820, whilst staying with his uncle, he learnt botany from a professor. He entered commercial life and, in 1828, went to the United States, where he worked for a time as a clerk in Boston and Philadelphia . In 1828, he was requested to supervise a transport of Saxon sheep to the American state of Virginia , where he lived for
255-597: Was given in honour of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom . It pushes other water plants aside as it spreads out until only those of its kind remains. When this happens it has nearly completely cut out the sunlight from getting to any plants below the water limited only by circle packing . All three species typically have four sepals each measuring 12 centimetres (4.7 in) long by 8 centimetres (3.1 in) wide. There are typically 50 to 70 petals and 150 to 200 stamens. The first published description of
272-477: Was named for him. He also laid to rest the persistent myth of Raleigh's Lake Parime by proposing that the seasonal flooding of the Rupununi savannah had been misidentified as a lake. In 1841, he returned to Guiana, this time as a British Government official to survey the colony and fix its eastern and western boundaries. The result was the provisional boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela , known as
289-546: Was promoted to the position of British Consul-General of Siam , where Britain exercised extraterritorial jurisdiction through consular courts over British subjects . In a letter to his cousin William, Schomburgk notes, "In order to get an insight into the English summary police court proceedings, I was, before I left London, obliged to attend police courts there for some time, also to acquaint myself with these proceedings by
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