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!