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Estate of Karl Mauch, African explorer (* 1837, 1875) (holdings)
Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, Q 2/12 · Fonds · 1853-1915 (1950-1987)
Part of Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Main State Archives Stuttgart (Archivtektonik)
  1. history of tradition: On 24 March 1976 the Linden-Museum Stuttgart handed over the scientific estate of the Africa-traveller Karl Mauch (born on 7 May 1837 in Stetten im Remstal, died on 4 April 1875 in Blaubeuren), comprising a total of 0.2 metres, to the Main State Archives for safekeeping. The museum connected with the surrender the condition, also approved by the two sponsors of the museum, the Ministry of Culture Baden-Württemberg and the city of Stuttgart, that the documents of the estate be restored, as far as necessary, in the Main State Archive Stuttgart. The most valuable parts of the scientifically significant estate are the diaries, the sketchbooks and the drawings of Karl Mauch. In addition to the records and other documents left behind by the well-known African explorer, the collection also contains materials from the estate of his brother Joseph B. Mauch. The biographer Karl Mauchs, the secondary school teacher E. Mager from Schwäbisch Gmünd, has taken care of the written legacy of the Africa researcher and provided for the erection of a memorial stone at the seminar building in Schwäbisch Gmünd. The estate was arranged and registered in the course of 1976 by the aspiring inspector Rolf Reiff under the direction of the undersigned. A restoration of the part of the written material that is endangered in its state of preservation is planned for the next few years. 2nd biography: Mauch, Karl (07.05.1837 - 04.04.1875), teacher, African explorer and cartographer; traveled in the years 1865-1872 mainly Transvaal and Matabeleland, discovered the ruins of Zimbabwe in 1871; cartographer of South Africa 3rd content: Contains: Diaries and sketchbooks; notes on geology, botany, zoology, and deposit geography; drawings and maps of his expeditions; Mauch's surveying instruments; documents of his brother Joseph B's estate. Mauch, pharmacist; supplemented by material collections on Mauch's life and work, mainly compiled by his biographer Engelbert Mager, erection of a Mauch monument in Schwäbisch Gmünd, scientific findings and discoveries by other African researchers; literature on Karl Mauch 4. Literature: Karl Mauch: The journals of Carl Mauch. His travels in the Transvaal and Rhodesia 1869-1872 Transcribed from the original by E. Bernhard and translated by F. O. Bernhard. Edited by E. Burke. Salisbury: National Archives of Rhodesia 1969; Carl Mauch: African Diary. In: Hartmut Selke (Bearb.), Swabian globetrotter (Kiechel, Ulsheimer, Mauch). Schwäbische Lebensläufe Volume 9 Heidenheim an der Brenz, 1971; Herbert W. A. Sommerlatte, Gold und Ruinen in Zimbabwe. From diaries and letters of the Swabian Karl Mauch (1837-1875). Gütersloh 1987; A Swabian in the Goldland Ophir? - the discovery of the ruins of Zimbabwe by Karl Mauch in 1871. [Catalogue of the] exhibition of the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, 1991.
 Mauch, Karl