Schomburgk
SIR ROBERT HERMANN, a Prussian traveler; born in Freiburg, Prussian Saxony, June 5, 1804. He was trained for the mercantile profession and came to the United States in 1829; but in the following year he removed to Anegada, one of the Virgin Isles. Having surveyed the island and laid a report before the Royal Geographical Society, he was charged by that body to lead an exploring expedition to British Guiana in 1835. This enterprise he successfully achieved. It was during this exploration, and while he was ascending the Berbice river, that he discovered, Jan. 1, 1837, the magnificent aquatic plant, the "Victoria Regia," described in his "Description of British Guiana" (Lond. 1840), and his "Views in the Interior of Guiana" (1841). In 1841 he returned to Guiana to survey the colony for the government, and to draw the long controverted "Schomburgk line" as a provisional boundary with Venezuela and Brazil, and was knighted. In 1847 he published an excellent and elaborate "History of Barbadoes," and in the following year he was appointed British consul at Santo Domingo, and in 1857 British representative at the Siamese court. Ill-health forced him to return to Europe in 1864 and he died next year near Berlin.
SCHÖNHAUSEN, a village of Prussia province of Saxony, and district of Magdeburg; 2 miles from the Elbe river; is the birthplace of Prince Bismarck (1815), and is noted as the location of his family estates.
SCHÖNBERG, or MÄHRISCH- SCHÖNBERG, a town of Czecho-Slovakia.
It is situated on the river Tess, 159 miles S. E. of Prague. The surroundings are picturesque. It is well built, with a fine church, agricultural and weaving schools, and textile industries. Pop. (district) about 85,000.
SCHÖNEBERG, a suburb of Berlin, Germany. It is largely given over to SCHOODIC LAKES residences of business people working in Berlin and has an aërial navigation bureau of the German army, with hospital for the insane and an observatory. The industries include military supplies, photographic materials, paper, railway locomotives. Pop. about 175,000.