"Johann Kohl was an educated, urbane, and well-trained German geographer, ethnologist, and popular writer. During his visit with the Lake Superior Ojibwa in 1855, he made useful and unbiased studies of their material culture, religion, and folklore. . . . The extent of Kohl's observations is really amazing. They cover the fur trade, canoe building, domestic utensils, quillwork, native foods, hunting, fishing, trapping, cooking, toboggans, snowshoes, gardening, lodge building, games and warfare."--Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly

JG Kohl's account of Ireland in 1844 gives us a glimpse of the years after Catholic Emancipation and before the Irish Famine. His journey took him through the four provinces. Part Two takes him to Tarbet, Tralee, Killarney, Bantry, Cork, Kilkenny and Waterford. As a German traveller he makes insightful comparisons, not only with the British mainland, but with other parts of Europe. He visits isolated settlements, hedge schools, Killarney and meets the gentry, traders, fisherman and small farmers along the way. He comments on their struggles, lifestyles, habits, transport and customs. He...

This is the opening part of 'Travels in Ireland', by J.G Kohl, first published in 1844. It gives a glimpse of life in the years after Catholic Emancipation and immediately before the Great Irish Famine. Part One takes us from Dublin through Edgeworthtown, The Shannon, Limerick, Edenvale and Kilrush. We get a contemporary view of landlords, both resident and absentee and how the latter contributed to the neglect and hardship of the rural Irish peasantry. Developments on the Shannon are examined, promising improvements for the West of Ireland and the desperate plight of the peasantry. Kohl's...

Umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte des Bremer Ratsweinkellers von 1866. Der geburtige Bremer Johann Georg Kohl behandelt eine Vielzahl verschiedener Themen, die im Zusammenhang mit dem Ratsweinkeller stehen. So berichtet er uber den Weinhandel in Norddeutschland, uber organisatorische Strukturen des Weinkellers, uber Sitten und Gebrauche der Weinherren und vieles mehr.

Der geburtige Bremer Johann Georg Kohl war Reiseschriftsteller und Stadtbibliothekar in Bremen. In den 1850er Jahren befasste sich Kohl insbesondere mit der Neuen Welt. Im Auftrag des amerikanischen Instituts fur die Meereskuste wurde Kohl wahrend seines Aufenthalts in den USA mit der Erforschung des Golfstroms von der Zeit der Entdeckung Amerikas durch Columbus bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhundert beauftragt. Seine umfangreichen Erkenntnisse und Ergebnisse zur Geschichte der Ozeane und den geografischen Entdeckungen schildert er in dem vorliegenden Werk. Dieses Buch ist ein Nachdruck der langst...

"Der Unterzeichnete verfolgte seit langerer Zeit den Plan, Materialien zu einer Kultur- und Sittengeschichte seiner Vaterstadt Bremen zu sammeln und dieselbe zu einem eingehenden Werke zu gestalten, um in demselben an einem speziell ausgefuhrten Beispiele einen Beitrag zur allgemeinen Geschichte des Deutschen Burgertums zu liefern." ...] Kohl, geburtiger und weit gereister Bremer, verfasste dieses viel beachtete Werk im Jahre 1871 in seiner Eigenschaft als Stadtbibliothekar von Bremen. Es erzahlt von der Stadtbeleuchtung, von Feuersbrunsten, Fluten, aber auch vom Humor der Bremer, ihren...

This work was published in 1844 just before the Great Famine and is a wonderful resource for those interested in the period or simply in knowing how their ancestors lived. Kohl's journey took him through the four provinces including Dublin, Limerick, Waterford and Belfast. Part Three took him through Wexford, Enniscorthy, Avoca, Glendalough and Dublin where he discussed innovations in education and infant schools as well as reflections on the '98 Rebellion and agrarian crime. He visited the Vale of Avoca and Glendalough, reflecting on Thomas Moore as well as early Christian Ireland. In Dublin...

A German traveller's perception of Pre-famine Ireland, with explanatory notes and index added to the original text. This is a snapshot of an Ireland that was about to vanish. Two years after the publication of this book, the Great Irish Famine ravaged the land, hastening the end of Gaelic Ireland and the Irish language. Kohl's journey took him through the four provinces and the cities of Dublin, Limerick, Waterford and Belfast. He encountered such men as Daniel O'Connell and the great temperance campaigner, Father Mathew. He talked to beggars in their huts, gentry in their countryseats and...