Documents Otto von LINSTOW 1884: GENEALOGIE, LIVINGSTONE

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You bid Documents with genealogical research of medical officers and helminthologists Otto von Linstow (1842-1916).

This follows the thesis the Scottish family Livingstone (of the missionary and explorer of Africa David Livingstone) are descended from his family and therefore have their name in a modified form. -- This assumption turns out to be not correct.

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1.) Large sheet with an excerpt from the magazine "Gartenlaube", No. 30 (1869): "The Livingstone Agreements of a Mecklenburg noble family", in which this thesis is put forward, with a printed coat of arms by Josiah Livingston and handwritten annotations by Otto von Linstow, dated Hameln, 6. December 1882.

A few lines about the von Linstow family on the reverse.

2.) Small, older sheet with a short note about the admiral sir Thomas Livingstone / Livingston of Bedlormie & Westquarter, 7th Bart (1769-1853).

3.) Handwritten transcript of Gazebo article and short article on Thomas Livinston(e).

4.) Handwritten translation of the inscription in the memorial stone at David Livingstone's grave, written by Otto von Linstow.

5.) Letter from the Imperial German Embassy in London dated 25. March 1884, addressed to Otto von Linstow in Hamelin.

Quote: "[...] that an aristocratic Livingstone family, wealthy in England, is not listed in Burke's works 'Peerage and Baronetage' and 'Landed Gentry' and it can therefore be assumed with certainty that the same does not exist."

Signed by the head of the Chancellery of the Imperial German Embassy, ​​Hofrat Wilhelm Adolf von Schmettau.

Scope: one page written on four (20.2 x 12.5 cm).

Condition: Paper partly browned and stained, partly also with edge damage. The letter from the London Embassy received excellently. BPlease also note the pictures at the end of the item description!

Internal note: Linstow 10

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About David Livingstone, Otto von Linstow and the Linstow family (source: wikipedia):

David Livingstone (* 19. March 1813 at Blantyre near Glasgow; † 1. May 1873 in Chitambo on Lake Bangweulus) was a Scottish missionary and explorer of Africa.

Life: The Congregationionalist Livingstone was first a cotton spinner, but was also involved in medicine and theology. In 1840 Livingstone went to South Africa as a missionary in the service of the London Missionary Society. On 2. On January 1, 1845, he married Mary Moffat, a daughter of the missionary Robert Moffat.

Research trips: In 1849 he hiked through the Kalahari desert from the Kolobeng mission station in Bechuan country to Lake Ngami. Around 1850 he lived in Sangwali in what is now the Zambezi region of Namibia.[1] On a new voyage in 1851 he reached the upper reaches of the Zambezi. He brought his wife and children to Cape Town, from where they died on April 23. April 1852 traveled to England on a sailing ship.[2] From 1853 to 1856 he crossed all of South Africa from the Zambezi to Loanda (Luanda) and back to Quelimane. In November 1855 he discovered the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi for Europe. Returning home, he published Missionary travels and researches in South Africa (London 1857, 2 volumes; new edition 1875; German, Leipzig 1859, 2 volumes).

In March 1858 he went again to Quelimane and the Zambezi region with his brother Charles Livingstone and five other Europeans (including John Kirk and the painter Thomas Baines) on behalf of the British government. He traced the Shire, a tributary on the lower reaches of the Zambezi, to its source in Lake Malawi (formerly Lake Nyasa), where he died on January 16, 1941. Arrived September 1859 and discovered Lake Chilwa (Lake Shirwa) nearby. He also followed the Rovuma a distance up twice. His wife, Mary, joined him at the mouth of the Zambezi, but soon contracted malaria and died on April 27. April 1862.[3] Livingstone was unable to achieve his actual goal of counteracting the slave trade and, in particular, of winning over the local population for agriculture and cotton cultivation. He therefore returned to Great Britain in 1864 and together with his brother published the Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributes (Lond. 1865; German, Jena 1865-1866, 2 volumes).

In the autumn of 1865 he embarked again and landed in Zanzibar in January 1866. on the 24th In March 1866 he started his last research trip from Mikindani. A short time later the rumor spread that he had been killed; an expedition sent after him, however, soon became convinced that this rumor was unfounded. Livingstone had traveled up the Rovuma to Lake Malawi, bypassed its southern shore, crossed the Chambeshi, one of the source rivers of the Congo, which had already been discovered by the Portuguese, reached the southern end of Lake Tanganyika in April 1867 and reached Lake Moero in April 1868, having previously seen its outflow discovered the Lualaba. In May 1868 he came to the Cazembe, then traveled south through its territory and discovered on 18. July Lake Bangweo. From there he turned north, and on the 14th he reached March 1869 fell ill after Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, where he stayed until July 1869.

In 1871, Livingstone witnessed around 1,500 people in the market square of Njangwe as Arab slave traders rushed into the middle of the crowd. They had previously surrounded the village. Many locals were taken away by the Arabs, 400 people died and 27 villages were burned. Livingstone was outraged and broke away from the Arabs.

He then explored Manyemaland to the west of it, whence on 23 October 1871 emaciated and exhausted returned to Ujiji. Henry Morton STANLEY , who had been sent by James Bennett in New York to find the traveler who had been missing since 1869, met on 10. November 1871[6] Livingstone fell ill in Ujiji and greeted him with the legendary words “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" ("Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"). Livingstone explored the north end of Tanganyika with STANLEY in December 1871 and accompanied STANLEY to Unyanjembe.

death: Despite his failing health, Livingstone wanted to remain in the interior of Africa and continue to search for the sources of the Nile. After waiting six months at Unyanjembe for new funds, until the end of August 1872, Livingstone set out for the area where he suspected the sources of the Nile. Livingstone went down the east bank of the Tanganyika, then around its south end into the land of the Cazembe, and circumnavigated the eastern half of Lake Bangweulu. He became ill and physically weaker. Most recently, he had to be carried in a hammock on the march. on the 1st He died of dysentery in Ilala on the south bank of the Bangweulu River on May 18, 1873.

The expedition sent by the British to support Livingstone, under Veney Cameron, came too late. But it was then the occasion for the first crossing of Africa from east to west.

To illustrate Livingstone's saying "My heart is in Africa", his faithful companions Susi and Chuma, a slave freed by Livingstone, removed the heart from his body and buried it under a tree. The tree is described in various sources as a Mvula tree (Milicia excelsia) or as an African baobab tree (Baobab)[7]. Today there is a memorial there. Susi and Chuma embalmed his corpse and carried it to the east coast with great danger and toil; from there she was embarked for Great Britain, where she arrived on April 18. Buried in Westminster Abbey, London, April 1874.

On his tombstone it says:

"Brought by faithful hands over land and sea, here rests David Livingstone, missionary, traveler, philanthropist, born March 19, 1813, at Blantyre, Lanarkshire, died May 1, 1873, at Chitambo's village, Ulala. […] Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring (John 10:16 KJV).”

"Brought in trusting hands across land and sea, here rests David Livingstone, missionary, traveller, philanthropist, born 19th March 1813 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, died 1. May 1873 at Chitambo, Ulala. […] And I have other sheep that are not from this stable; I must also bring them here (John 10:16 NIV).”

The also saved diaries and maps from the travels in the last eight years of his life were published by Horace Waller under the title: The last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to his death 1874 in London[8], in German in 1875 in Hamburg.

Memberships: In 1858 Livingstone was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1869 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences.

afterlife

namesake

Monument in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

After Livingstone were named:

the town of Livingstone on the north bank of the Zambezi River in present-day Zambia

the town of Livingstonia in northern Malawi

the Livingstone Mountains in southern Tanzania

the Livingstone Falls, rapids in the Congo River

Day of remembrance: The Evangelical Church in Germany commemorates with a day of remembrance on May 30. April in the evangelical calendar of names to David Livingstone. (For evangelical commemoration of witnesses of the faith, see Confessio Augustana, article 21.)

Music: In addition, the Swedish pop group ABBA honored him in 1974 with the song "What about Livingstone?" on their second album Waterloo.

The group The Moody Blues released "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume" on the album "In Search of the Lost Chord".

Ken Roccard wrote Livingstone, Negro Rhythms for wind band.

Movie

STANLEY and Livingstone (1939) – Directed by Henry King, Cast: Sir Cedric Hardwicke (Livingstone), Spencer Tracy ( STANLEY )

Forbidden Territory: STANLEY 's Search for Livingstone (1997) – Directed by: Simon Langton, Cast: Nigel Hawthorne (Livingstone), Aidan Quinn ( STANLEY )

Museums

Livingstone Museum, Livingstone, Zambia

Livingstone Museum, Sangwali, Namibia

factories

David Livingstone: Missionary Travels and Research in South Africa. German edition in two volumes Leipzig, publisher Hermann Costenoble 1858.

The excerpt of the text The discovery of the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi appeared with a short biography in: Johannes Paul (ed.): From Greenland to Lambarene. Travelogues of Christian missionaries from three centuries. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1952, pp. 74-82. = Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1958, pp. 70-78.

David Livingstone: "The Development of the Dark Continent". Travel Journals 1866–1873 until his death. travel diary history, SDS Verlag, Hamburg/Norderstedt 2006.

Otto Friedrich Bernhard von Linstow (* 17. October 1842 in Itzehoe; † 3 May 1916 in Göttingen) was a German medical officer and helminthologist.

Life: His parents were the Danish lieutenant and later postmaster too Bückeburg August Wilhelm Franz von Linstow (born 21. Nov 1814; † 13 June 1887) and his wife August Sophie Johanne née Schönfeldt (* 26. October 1819; † 23 November 1899).

After attending school in Bückeburg and Hamburg, Linstow studied medicine from 1862 at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, later at the Julius Maximilian University in Würzburg, and at the Georg August University in Göttingen. He became a member of the Corps Holsatia (1863) and the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen (1865). 1866 in Kiel to Dr. medical After earning his doctorate, he joined the Prussian army in 1868. He served as a military doctor in Ratzeburg, Stade and Hagenau. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War. From about 1880 he was staff and battalion doctor in Hameln and from 1887 senior staff doctor and regimental doctor in Göttingen. on the 7th On 1 May 1904 he retired as senior physician.

Linstow devoted himself to helminthology, entomology and lepidopterology. He examined the worms brought back from the Challenger expedition. As a specialist in worm diseases, he was appointed professor in 1911.

on the 30th June 1870 he had in Bückeburg Anna Emilie Franziska Henriette von Campe (* 12. May 1845) married. The couple had two sons and a daughter. Two children died young. Only the eldest son Otto von Linstow (geologist) survived.

awards

Challenger Medal

Corresponding member of the Senckenberg Nature Research Society

Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society of London

writings

Compendium of Helminthology. A list of the known helminths, living free or in animal bodies, arranged according to their habitat, with the organs in which they are found, and the sources of the literature. Hanover: Hahn'sche Buchhandlung, 1878, digitized, with supplement 1889.

Poisonous animals and their effect on man: a handbook for physicians. Berlin: A. Hirschwald 1894.

Nemathelminths, results of the Hamburg Magalhaens collecting trip 1896, III, 8.

Nematodes of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, Proc. Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 26, 1906.

Nematodes from the Berlin Zoological Collection. Berlin, R Friedlander and Son 1899.

Report on the Entozoa collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873–76, Report of the scientific results of the voyage of HMS Challenger, Volume 23, Part 4, 1880.

Linstow is the name of a Mecklenburg aristocratic family with the same ancestral home in Linstow.

History: The gender appears in a document for the first time on 22. July 1281 in Rostock with the knight Gherardus de Linstowe. The main line begins with the knight Heinrich von Linstow, who is mentioned in documents from 1301 to 1318. The family still exists today in Germany and in some strong lines in Denmark. There she was born on the 28th. January 1777 granted the Danish nobility naturalization.

Anna von Linstow, b. von Levetzow entered the Dobbertin monastery as a widow in 1500 and left the monastery 100 guilders for her daughters Dorothea and Anna who lived there. From 1682 to 1704 Ilsabe Lucie von Linstow was a conventual in Dobbertin Monastery.

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are eight entries from daughters of the von Linstow families from Bellin, Diestelow and Vietschow from the years 1736-1814 for admission to the local aristocratic convent. Around 1880, the von Linstows had their Linstow manor house, which was probably built during the Thirty Years' War, rebuilt.

The estate in Klocksin belonged to the 14th century of the family.

Castle and estate Damerow and Neu Damerow was family property from 1605 to 1784.

Coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided between silver and black (oldest seal from the 3rd century). March 1325). On the helmet with black and silver covers two virgins growing forward, one white, the other black, each holding a green wreath in the outstretched outer hands and one in the middle together.

Well-known namesake

Conrad (von) Linstow, 1317 provost of the Dobbertin monastery[4]

Hans (Ernst Johann) von Linstow (1523–1592), hereditary lord of Bellin, from 1569 to 1583 provisional in the Dobbertin monastery, 1571 as visitor to the elimination of the Catholic faith and the dissolution of the Dobbertin nunnery

Georg von Linstow (1593–1650), from 1622 to 1628 monastery captain in Dobbertin, 1630 Wallenstein's appellate judge in Güstrow.[6]

Heinrich Wilhelm von Linstow (2. January 1709 to 29 April 1759), Electoral Hanoverian colonel from the Inf.-Reg. Linstow, wounded and captured at the Battle of Bergen, died at Frankfurt[7]

August von Linstow (1775–1848), Danish district administrator of the district of Sonderburg

Hans Ditlev Franciscus von Linstow (Hans Ditlev Frants von Linstow; 1787–1851), Norwegian architect

Hans Otfried von Linstow (1899–1944), German colonel and resistance fighter

Hartwig von Linstow (1810–1884), Danish-German administrative lawyer, acting president of the government of the Duchy of Lauenburg in Ratzeburg

Hugo von Linstow (1821–1899), Prussian officer, 1869 co-founder and 1. Chairman of the HERALD. Association for heraldry, genealogy and related sciences in Berlin.

Adolf von Linstow (1832–1902), Prussian lieutenant general

Waldemar von Linstow (1859–1925), Prussian major general

Otto von Linstow (physician) (1842–1916), German military doctor and zoologist

Otto von Linstow (geologist) (1872–1929), German geologist