Everything about Karl Weyprecht totally explained
Karl Weyprecht, was born on
September 8,
1838, in
Bad König (alternatively in
Michelstadt in
Odenwald,
Germany), and died
March 3,
1881 in
Michelstadt. He was an officer (
k.u.k. Linienschiffsleutnant) in the
Austro-Hungarian Navy. He is most famous as an Arctic explorer, and an advocate of international cooperation for scientific polar exploration. Although he didn't live to see it occur, he's associated with the organisation of the first
International Polar Year.
In
1856, he joined the Austro-Hungarian Navy (
Kriegsmarine) as a provisional sea cadet. He served in the
Austro-Sardinian War. From
1860 to
1862, he served on the frigate
Radetzky under the command of Admiral
Tegetthoff. From
1863 to
1865, he was instructional officer on the training ship
Hussar.
On
July 23,
1865, he became known to the German geographer
August Petermann at a meeting of the "Geographic Society" in
Frankfurt.
He served in the
July 20,
1866 sea
battle at Lissa aboard the battleship
Drache.
In
1868, he'd to hand over the leadership of the first German polar expedition to Karl Holdeway due to ill-health. He met
Julius von Payer in
1870. He made a preliminary expedition with Julius von Payer to
Novaya Zemlya in
1871.
On
February 18,
1872, he gained citizenship in Austro-Hungary.
He co-led with Julius von Payer the
1872-
1874 Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition on the ship
Admiral Tegetthoff which discovered
Franz Josef Land in the Arctic. It was abandoned in the pack ice. The expedition moved on sledges to go further north, then to open water, and used boats to reach the Black Cape of Novaya Zemlya, where they were able to eventually contact a Russian schooner "Nikolaj" under Captain Feodor Veronin, and get to
Vardø, Norway, where they took the mail boat south and eventually returned to Vienna.
On
September 18,
1875, he addressed the 48th Meeting of German Scientists and Physicians in Graz, Austria. He reported the "basic principles of Arctic research" and suggested that fixed Arctic observation stations should be established.
In
1879, he presented these ideas, along with
George Neumayer's to the 2nd International Congress of Meteorologists in Rome.
In
1881, he died of
tuberculosis.
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