Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838)

Adelbert von Chamisso (born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamisso de Boncourt) was a German poet and naturalist whose family fled the French Revolution to settle in Prussia. Chamisso was an officer in the Prussian army from 1798–1807 and, as a naturalist, participated in two circumnavigations of the Earth, resulting in the book Bemerkungen und Ansichten auf einer Entdeckungsreise, 1821; expanded edition: Reise um die Welt mit der Romanzoffischen Entdeckungs-Expedition, 1836.

Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), engraving, n.d. [1864 or earlier], unknown artist; source: Chamisso, Adelbert von: Werke, 5. ed., Berlin 1864, vol. 1, p. 2, Wikimedia Commons, public domain.