Robert Stein (Explorer) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dr. Robert Stein (1857 1917) was a Prussian-American arctic explorer, writer and interpreter of Eskimo languages. Stein was born in 1857 in Rengersdorf (Krosnowice), Silesia. He began to study with intentions to go into the clergy, but eventually obtained a medical degree and learned 12 languages. In 1892, he and his brother Richard bought land in Maryland, USA, including Harmony Hall, a 1760 manor house. This spawned a small settlement in Prince George's County, Maryland, also called "Silesia," with a population today of around 40 people.