Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg
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Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg | |||||
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Born | Bad Carlsruhe, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia |
25 June 1797||||
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Mergentheim, Kingdom of Württemberg |
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Spouse | Princess Maria Sophia of Thurn and Taxis | ||||
Issue | Duke Maximilian | ||||
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House | House of Württemberg | ||||
Father | Duke Eugen of Württemberg | ||||
Mother | Princess Luise of Stolberg-Gedern |
Duke Friedrich Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg (German: Friedrich Paul Wilhelm, Herzog von Württemberg; 25 June 1797, Bad Carlsruhe, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia – 25 November 1860, Mergentheim, Kingdom of Württemberg) was a member of the House of Württemberg and a Duke of Württemberg. Paul Wilhelm was a German naturalist and explorer, who in the early 19th century, undertook several expeditions in North America, North Africa, and Australia. In 1829, he discovered the sources of the Missouri River.
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Family
Paul Wilhelm was the fifth and youngest child of Duke Eugen of Württemberg and his wife Princess Luise of Stolberg-Gedern. Through his father, Paul Wilhelm was a grandson of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg and his wife Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt. He was a nephew of Frederick of Württemberg, the first King of Württemberg.
Expeditions
Between the years 1822 to 1824, Paul Wilhelm's undertook his first major research trip to Cuba and North America. He kept a diary in which he described the places he visited in great scientific and ethnological detail. An artist produced numerous images of the landscapes, plants, and animals.
Paul Wilhelm devoted himself particularly to the study North and South America. He spent time exploring the Western United States and met the son of Sacagawea, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. After his initial meeting with Jean Baptiste Charbonneau in 1823 at the Kansas River, likely arranged by William Clark, Paul Wilhelm left camp and headed north with Great Plains veteran Toussaint Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste's father and Sacagawea's husband, hired as an interpreter. The Duke’s party spent five months in the upper Missouri country visiting trading forts, Indian tribes, and collecting scientific data. Paul Wilhelm is traditionally included as one of the first explorers of the headwaters of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
As late as the 1850s, he visited Baron Ottmar von Behr, a German farmer and sheep breeder, meteorologist, and scientist living in Sisterdale, Texas. When he visited New Braunfels on an 1855 visit, artist Carl G. von Iwonski made him a gift of six pencil sketches of the artist's Texas work.
Marriage and later life
Paul Wilhelm married Princess Maria Sophia of Thurn and Taxis, fifth child and fourth daughter of Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis and his wife Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, on 17 April 1827 in Regensburg. Paul Wilhelm and Maria Sophia Dorothea had one son:
- Duke Wilhelm Ferdinand ''Maximilian'' Karl of Württemberg (Schloss Taxis 3 September 1828 – Regensburg 28 July 1888), married Princess Hermine of Schaumburg-Lippe, eldest child of Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
He and Maria Sophia Dorothea divorced as early as 2 May 1835. After his marriage ended, Paul Wilhelm resided at Schloss Mergentheim in Mergentheim, where he kept his extensive ethnological collection acquired during his travels. In Bad Carlsruhe, Silesia, he built the palace, Palais "Paulusburg," but it was not completed until the year of his death.
Literary works
- Paul von Württemberg: Early Sacramento: glimpses of John Augustus Sutter, the Hok farm, and neighboring Indian tribes, Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1973 OCLC 3187671 ASIN B000GR0CVO
- Paul von Württemberg: Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Württemberg Travels in North America 1822 -1824, Transl. by W. Robert Nitzke. Ed. by Savoie Lottinville Norman. University of Oklahoma Press, 1973 (reprint). The American Exploration and Travel Ser. Vol. 63. ASIN B0006C3UE0
Titles, styles, honours and arms
Titles and styles
- 25 June 1797 – 25 November 1860: His Royal Highness Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg
Ancestry
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References
- Siegfried Augustin (Hg.): Herzog Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg, Reise nach dem nördlichen Amerika in den Jahren 1822 bis 1824. München 1978.
- Kazimierz Bobowski: Paul Herzog von Württemberg. In: Das Haus Württemberg - Ein biographisches Lexikon. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-17-013605-4
- Monika Firla/Hermann Forkl: Herzog Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg (1797 - 1860) und Afrika (Sudan, Äthiopien, Kanuri und Afroamerika). In: Tribus, N.F. 47/1998. S. 57-95.
- Kilian Klann: Die Sammlung indianischer Ethnographica aus Nordamerika des Herzog Friedrich Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg. Wyk auf Föhr 1999.
- Monika Firla: Herzog Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg. Naturforscher, Ethnograph, Reisender, Sammler und Museumsgründer. In: Gerhard Thaddey/Joachim Fischer (Hg.): Lebensbilder aus Baden-Württemberg. Band 20. Stuttgart 2001. S. 226-257.
External links
- Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg in the German National Library catalogue
- Herzog Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg und Balduin Möllhausen
- Die unrühmliche Rolle des Herzogs Paul Wilhelm von Württemberg am Sandy Hill Creek
- John Cushman Abbott Exhibit Supplement -- includes a discussion of Duke Paul and his book Erste Reise nach dem Nördlichen Americka in den Jahren 1822 bis 1824, and a downloadable pdf of the book.
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- 1797 births
- 1860 deaths
- House of Württemberg
- Dukes of Württemberg
- People from Namysłów County
- People from the Province of Silesia
- German explorers
- German naturalists
- German ethnologists
- People of the American Old West
- Members of the Württembergian Chamber of Lords