Acclimatization: The Schomburgk brothers in South Australia
Author: Engelhard Weigl
published in: HiN IV, 7 (2003)
Inhalt:
Together with their wives Otto and Richard Schomburgk arrived in Port Adelaide (South Australia) on August 16th 1849. Engelhard Weigl´s essay looks at how these two brothers, who had received their scientific training and promotion in the circle surrounding Alexander von Humboldt, reacted to the unfamiliar conditions in the young British colony. Some indication will be given as to the differences between the Schomburgk brothers treatment of the natural resources of the new colony and that of the English colonists of the time.
