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Name: SCHMIDT, Robert Hans
Birth Date: 1870
Nationality: Austrian
First Date: 1894
Profession: International Freeland Assoc. - Artist; aged 24 arr. Lamu 2/4/1894, arr. Zanzibar from Lamu 16/9/1894
Area: Lamu
Book Reference: North
General Information:
North - International Freeland Assoc. - Alpine climber & engineer; aged 24 arr. Lamu 2/4/1894; Assoc disbanded 19/6/1894, had left Lamu by July 1894; (arr. Zanzibar from Lamu 16/9/1894) "totally unamenable to control of any kind" (Dugmore)
https://lizadaly.com/pages/utopian-novels/freeland.html Robert Hans Schmitt, a landscape painter and mountaineer of minor renown, became fed up with his living conditions and left Freeland House for his own lodgings. He would die soon after in Zanzibar of blackwater fever, a now-rare complication of malaria induced, ironically, by treatment with quinine. He was 29.