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Drawing of Death bringing the cholera, in Le Petit Journal (1912).. The sixth cholera pandemic (1899–1923) was a major outbreak of cholera beginning in India, where it killed more than 800,000 people, and spreading to the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Russia.
1831 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel died of a gastrointestinal disease during a cholera outbreak in Berlin. 1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died of a heart attack in Weimar. [6] 1837 – Giacomo Leopardi died in Naples during a cholera epidemic, maybe by pulmonary edema. 1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer died of pulmonary-respiratory failure
Hegel's friend Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer (1766–1848) financially supported Hegel and used his political influence to help him obtain multiple positions. In Bamberg, as editor of the Bamberger Zeitung , which was a pro-French newspaper, Hegel extolled the virtues of Napoleon and often editorialized the Prussian accounts of the war. [37]
Distribution of cholera during the first cholera pandemic Cholera dissemination across Southeast and eastern Asia 1820–1822. After spreading beyond India, the first cholera pandemic hit other parts of Asia and the African coast the hardest. [4] It would not be until later epidemics of cholera that it would ravage Europe and the Americas. [4]
As of August 23, there were 1,770 cases of cholera reported with 68 deaths. [120] Between October 2021 and 30 January 2023, there were 15,220 reported cases of cholera in Cameroon, with 306 deaths. [121] Between January 2022 and 5 February 2022, there were 24,263 cases and 612 cholera deaths reported in Nigeria. [121]
[15] [20] Cholera reached the Pacific coast of North America by 1834, reaching into the center of the country by steamboat and other river traffic. [21] The third cholera pandemic began in 1846 and lasted until 1860. It hit Russia hardest, with over one million deaths. In 1846, cholera struck Mecca, killing over 15,000. [22]
The disease continued westward in 1892, across the Punjab (with 75,000 cholera deaths), and raged on through Afghanistan and claimed 60,000 lives in Persia, [17] [18] and then reached Imperial Russia which suffered a staggering morbidity rate, exacerbated by the Russian famine of 1891–1892. [19]
The third cholera pandemic (1846–1860) was the third major outbreak of cholera originating in India in the 19th century that reached far beyond its borders, which researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) believe may have started as early as 1837 and lasted until 1863. [1]