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Person · People and expeditions

Emil Lenz and his 1830 publication

The author of the publication through which the 1829 expedition is known. What stands here is exactly what the publication and its digitised copy support.

In section History and people

The person, the publication and the event are three different things

Person

Emil Lenz

The author of the publication. Everything said about him here rests on that publication.

Publication

Die Ersteigung des Elbrus i. J. 1829: Briefe, 1830

A printed document. It exists independently of what it describes.

Event

The 1829 Elbrus expedition

What the publication reports on. Its own card.

What is known about this object

Names
Emil Lenz
This is the form the local source uses. Renderings of the name in other languages vary; choosing one of them needs a source of its own, and this reference does not name one yet.
Known through
The 1830 publication
In the material handed to this reference he is named precisely as the author of that publication.[1]
Publication
Die Ersteigung des Elbrus i. J. 1829: Briefe, 1830
Letters published a year after the expedition.
Digitised copy
University of Tartu repository
A digitised copy with a stable address for the record.

What this reference does not have yet

None of the rows below is filled in, because this reference holds no source for it. That is not a gap in the layout but a refusal to make a plausible guess.

Dates of life
Not given
Nationality, position
Not given
Role in the expedition
Not given
Authorship of the publication is supported; in what capacity he took part in the expedition itself is not established by the material available here.
Other works
Not given
Portrait
Not given
A portrait of a real person is neither chosen by resemblance nor generated.

How to cite

Cite the publication rather than this card: author, title, year, holding institution and the stable address of the record. When quoting, add the particular pages and keep the quotation separate from the interpretation.

digitised primary source

Emil Lenz (1830), Die Ersteigung des Elbrus i. J. 1829: Briefe — University of Tartu repository

https://dspace.ut.ee/items/b0df428d-00d9-48e8-9d43-0c3dba7a1711
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University of Tartu digital repository

https://dspace.ut.ee/

Notes

  1. Emil Lenz is named as the author of Die Ersteigung des Elbrus i. J. 1829: Briefe, 1830; digitised copy in the University of Tartu repository. dspace.ut.ee. Back to the text
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