Biographical entry Leichhardt, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (1813 - 1848?)

Summary

Friedrich Wilhelm L. Leichhardt was a German naturalist who arrived in New South Wales in 1842 to carry out inland explorations of Australia. He died on his third expedition attempting to cross the continent from Moreton Bay to Swan River.

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Archival resources

John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland

• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, 1847 - 1848, OM66-28; John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, 1842 - 1847, C154 and C160; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, 1842 - 1847, MS 30, 231, Q591; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, April 1842 - December 1842, C145; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, c. 1957 - c. 1961, A4480 and B1659; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, 1841 - 1847, ML MSS 683; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, Uncatalogued MSS SET 381; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, 1844 - 1950, A2992; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, 1834 - 1841, A3032; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, 1846 - 1902, A3938; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, 1963, ML MSS 816; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, 1844 - 1848, ML MSS 1087; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Ludwig Louis Politzer - Records, 1842 - 1953, B1359-61; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, 1840 - 1953, MS 334; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt - Records, 1834 - 1864, MS 1580 and others; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

• Dr Ludwig Leichhardt's Briefe an Seine Angehörigen, Hamburg, 1879. Details
• Bruce, Daniel, Travels with Leichardt, Fairfax, Melbourne, 1859. Details
• Chisholm, A. H., Strange New World: the Adventures of John Gilbert and Ludwig Leichardt, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1955. Details
• Cotton, Catherine, Ludwig Leichardt and the Great South Land, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1938. Details
• Erdos, Rene, Ludwig Leichardt, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1962. Details
• Mann, John F., Eight Months with Dr. Leichardt in the Years 1846-47, Turner & Henderson, Sydney, 1888. Details
• Politzer, L. L., Dr Ludgwig Leichhardt's Letters From Australia...March 23, 1842 to April 3, 1848, Melbourne, 1945. Details
• Roderick, Colin, Leichhardt the Dauntless Explorer, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1988, 536 pp. Details
• Zuchold, E. A., Dr Ludgwig Leichhardt, Leipzig, 1856. Details

Book Sections

• Baigent, Elizabeth, 'Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt, 1813-1848?', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. Details
• Erdos, Renee, 'Leichhardt, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (1813-1848?), naturalist and explorer', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 2, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967, pp. 102-104. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020090b.htm. Details
• O'Donnell, Dan, 'Ludwig Leichhardt - The Doctor', in John Pearn (ed.), Health, History and Horizons, Amphion Press, Brisbane, 1992, pp. 215-238. Details
• Roderick, Colin, 'The Education of an Explorer: Ludwig Leichhardt', in David Walker and Jurgen Tampke (eds), From Berlin to the Burdekin: The German Contribution to the Development of Australian Science, Exploration and the Arts, New South Wales University Press, Sydney, 1991, pp. 22-39. Details

Conference Papers

• Jackes, Betsy R., 'Retracing the Botanical Steps of Leichhardt and Gilbert in June 1845', in Short, P.S. (ed.), History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988, Australian Systematic Botany Society, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 165-170. Details

Journal Articles

• Blake, S. T., 'Some Pioneers in Plant Exploration Classification', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of Queensland, vol. lxvi, no. 1, 1954, pp. 1-19. Details
• Dewar, Mickey, 'The Leichardt Enigma', Journal of Northern Territory History, vol. 5, 1994, pp. 47-60. Details
• Hely, H., 'Expedition in Search of Dr Leichhardt', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australia Branch, vol. 16, 1914. Details
• Larcombe, E. E., 'The Search for Dr Leichhardt', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 12, 1926. Details
• Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Australian Botanists - (a) General, (b) New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. xlii, 1908, pp. 60-132. Details

Newspaper Articles

• Krefft, G., 'Biographical Sketch of Youth and Early Manhood of Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt', Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 29 June 1866. Details
• Nicholson, J. H., 'Leichhardt and His Friends', Queensland Daily Guardian (Brisbane), 29 June 1866. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Leichhardt, Ludwig', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-902695. Details

See also

• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P000570. Details