Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1854-1918) was perhaps the 19th century's foremost traveler and greatest travel writer. His career as a diplomat and his marriage to Minnie Hauck (1852-1912), who performed in
opera around the globe, seems to have been secondary to his travels. He was the first German in Korea, was largely responsible for the maritime practice of signaling positions of icebergs and wrecks and for universal and standard time zones. He was a "writing machine": 40 plus books, including eight American titles. (Frederic Trautmann, "Across Nebraska by Train in 1877: The Travels of Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg,"
Nebraska History 65 (1984): 411-422).
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