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German Views of
Amazonia through
the Centuries
Richard HackenHarold B. Lee LibraryBrigham Young University
Ludwig Richter, St. Genevieve in the Forest, 1841
9 AD – Germanic tribes defeat legions of Rome
Hans Hoffmann, A Hare in the Forest, ca. 1585
Galleon of the Welser merchant family, 1528
Welser coat of arms
Venezuela - Little Venice - Klein Venedig
El Dorado : Gold lying around for the taking…
Translation of Title:
Götz Simmer,
Gold and Slaves:The Province of Venezuela during the Welser Administration (1528-1556).
(Berlin: Wissenschaft & Technik Verlag, 2000)
Ulrich von Hutten, 1488-1523
Philipp von Hutten, 1505-1546
Jesuits of Amazonia
The Twenty-First Voyage, Or
Thorough and Com-prehensive Further Description of the Most Per-
fect Landscape of Brazil / Americae, andInhabitants and Customs of the Same…
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Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt, 1769 - 1859
Details, details…
Mount Chimborazo (Ecuador) seen from the Tapia Plateau, 1810
Humboldt and Bonpland on the Orinoco, by Ferdinand Keller
Tabletop mountains, tepuis and Angel Falls near where Venezuela, Guyana and Brazilcome together.
The aging Humboldt, who lived into his 90th year…
Goethe’s Trip to Brazil: The Thought Travel of a Genius.
Translated title of a recent book by Sylk Schneider. (Weimar: WTV, 2008).
Caricature of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, ca. 1817
Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph von Habsburg-Lorraine
Amazonian films of Werner Herzog
Lead actor Klaus Kinski (mock?) threatening Director Werner Herzog with a sword off-camera …
“Green Hell”
Map from Hans Staden, True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked,
Grim, Man-eating People in the New World, America (1557)
Ambrosius Richshoffer,Brazilian and West IndianTravel Description,(Strassburg: Städeln, 1677)
Journal of
Brazil, Or
Mixed Reports from Brazil,Collected on Scientific Expeditions
byW. L. von Eschwege (vol I: Weimar, 1818)
JourneyOf His Royal Highness
Prince Adalbert of Prussia
toBrazil.
Comp. and ed. from the diaries Of His Royal Highness…
Berlin: Hasselberg, 1857.
Artistic Impressions of Brazil
from 1884
By Johann Georg Grimm
Thank You!