Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers

Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers (31 January 1855 – 3 October 1895) was a German explorer and travel writer who is known in English-speaking countries for his account of a long trip through inland Southeast Asia, documented in his 1894 book Im Sattel durch Indochina, and republished in 2002 by White Lotus Press of Thailand in English as a three-part series entitled On Horseback Through Indochina.[1]

Biography

He was born on 31 January 1855 in Hamburg. He died on 3 October 1895 in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, part of German New Guinea while attempting to cross the island of New Guinea from north to south.[2]

Works

  • Kornähren der Poesie. Bremen, 1875; Bremen: Verlag von J. Kühlmann's Buchhandlung, 1880; Norden, 1888 - poetry
  • An indischen Fürstenhöfen, Berlin: Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Literatur, 1894; An indischen Fürstenhöfen, Berlin: Berlin. Hermann Paetel, 1909 (Sammlung belehrender Unterhaltunsschriften für die deutsche Jugend, 32 and 33), 2 volumes
  • Im Sattel durch Indo-China, Berlin: Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Literatur, 1894, 2 volumes; English translation: On Horseback Through Indochina, 3 volumes, Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2002
  • Meine erste Reise nach Zanzibar. In: Velhagen und Klasings Monatshefte, Jg. 9 (1894/95), Bd. 2, Heft 7, March 1895, pp. 81–95
  • Reisebilder aus Siam. Leipzig: R. Voigtländer, n.d. (ca 1927) (Voigtländers Volksbücher, 45)
  • Samoa, die Perle der Südsee – à jour gefaßt, Berlin: Hermann Paetel, 1895; Berlin: Hermann Paetel, 1900 (Unterhaltungsschriften für die deutsche Jugend, 1). New edition: Samoa, die Perle der Südsee. Düsseldorf: Lilienfeld Verlag, 2008, with an afterword by Hermann Joseph Hiery, ISBN 978-3-940357-04-5
  • Im Osten Asiens, Berlin: Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Literatur, 1896

References

  1. ^ Ehlers, Otto E. (2002). On Horseback through Indochina - Volume 2: Burma, North Thailand, the Shan States and Yunnan. White Lotus Press. ISBN 974-7534-74-6.
  2. ^ "THE GERMAN WARSHIP FALKE". The Daily Telegraph. No. 5186. New South Wales, Australia. 3 February 1896. p. 5. Retrieved 30 May 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
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