German Explorer. He, along with his brother Hermann published a scientific study of the Alps conducted from 1846 to 1848. In 1854, acting on the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, the East India Company commissioned him and his two brothers, Hermann and Robert, to make scientific investigations in their territory and particularly to study the Earth's magnetic field. They were the first Europeans to cross the Kunlun Mountains and the first to explore the region between Karakoram and Kunlun, and for the next three years, they travelled through the Deccan in southern India, then up into the Himalayas, and Karakoram. In early 1857 his brothers returned home from their travels but he remained behind for further exploration. Suspected of being a Chinese spy, he was beheaded without the benefit of a trial at Kashgar, in the southern Xinjiang province of present-day China, by Wali Khan, the Amir of Kashgar. His story became the inspiration of Rudyard Kipling's famous 1888 novel "The Man Who Would Be King".
German Explorer. He, along with his brother Hermann published a scientific study of the Alps conducted from 1846 to 1848. In 1854, acting on the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, the East India Company commissioned him and his two brothers, Hermann and Robert, to make scientific investigations in their territory and particularly to study the Earth's magnetic field. They were the first Europeans to cross the Kunlun Mountains and the first to explore the region between Karakoram and Kunlun, and for the next three years, they travelled through the Deccan in southern India, then up into the Himalayas, and Karakoram. In early 1857 his brothers returned home from their travels but he remained behind for further exploration. Suspected of being a Chinese spy, he was beheaded without the benefit of a trial at Kashgar, in the southern Xinjiang province of present-day China, by Wali Khan, the Amir of Kashgar. His story became the inspiration of Rudyard Kipling's famous 1888 novel "The Man Who Would Be King".
Bio by: William Bjornstad
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