Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Kannegieser, Sigismund

KANNEGIESER, Sigismund (kan-na-ge-zer), German explorer, b. in Freiberg in 1706; d. in Ratisbon in 1759. He studied in Vienna, and was appointed a clerk in the state department in 1728, but soon resigned his post to follow his tastes for adventure and science. He travelled in North and South America and the West Indies for fifteen years, and was offered the appointment of professor of history in the College of Santiago, Chili, but refused it, and, returning in 1744, settled in Ratisbon. He published “Briefe aus Süd-Amerika” (Ratisbon, 1746); “Menschen und Länder” (1747); “Tagebuch der Reisen” (Stuttgart, 1749); “Reisen im südlichen Amerika” (3 vols., Leipsic, 1750); “Neueste Reisen durch Louisiana” (2 vols., Ratisbon, 1751); “Das Leben der Incas Prinzen von Peru” (3 vols., Vienna, 1755); and “Ansichten über die Peruanischen Alterthümer und Peru überhaupt” (3 vols., Ratisbon, 1758).