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In the United Kingdom he was named Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire by King Edward VII.
As a foreigner, he was not authorized to use the associated title of Sir, but he could place the designation KCIE after his family name Hedin.
Hedin was also a Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle.
In his honor have been named a glacier, the Sven Hedin Glacier; a lunar crater Hedin; a species of the flowering plant, "Gentiana hedini"; the beetles "Longitarsus hedini" and "Coleoptera hedini"; a butterfly, "Fumea hedini Caradja"; a spider, "Dictyna hedini"; a fossil hoofed mammal, "Tsaidamotherium hedini"; a fossil Therapsid (a “mammal-like reptile”) "Lystrosaurus hedini"; and streets and squares in the cities of various countries (for example, “Hedinsgatan” at Tessinparken in Stockholm).
A permanent exhibition of articles found by Hedin on his expeditions is located in the Stockholm Ethnographic Museum.
In the Adolf Frederick church can be found the Sven Hedin memorial plaque by Liss Eriksson.
The plaque was installed in 1959.
On it, a globe with Asia to the fore can be seen, crowned with a camel.
It bears the Swedish epitaph:
The Sven Hedin Firn in North Greenland was named after him.
A survey of the extensive sources for Hedin research shows that it would be difficult at present to come to a fair assessment of the personality and achievements of Hedin.
Most of the source material has not yet been subjected to scientific scrutiny.
Even the DFG project "Sven Hedin und die deutsche Geographie" had to restrict itself to a small selection and a random examination of the source material.
The sources for Hedin research are located in numerous archives (and include primary literature, correspondence, newspaper articles, obituaries and secondary literature).
During his expeditions Hedin saw the focus of his work as being in field research.
He recorded routes by plotting many thousands of kilometers of his caravan itinerary with the detail of a high resolution topographical map and supplemented them with innumerable altitude measurements and latitude and longitude data.
At the same time he combined his field maps with panoramic drawings.
He drafted the first precise maps of areas unresearched until that date: the Pamir mountains, the Taklamakan desert, Tibet, the Silk Road and the Himalayas.
He was likely the first European to recognize that the Himalayas were a continuous mountain range.
He systematically studied the lakes of inner Asia, made careful climatological observations over many years, and started extensive collections of rocks, plants, animals and antiquities.
Underway he prepared watercolor paintings, sketches, drawings and photographs, which he later published in his works.
The photographs and maps with the highest quality printing are to be found in the original Swedish publications.
Hedin prepared a scientific publication for each of his expeditions.
The extent of documentation increased dramatically from expedition to expedition.
His research report about the first expedition was published in 1900 as "Die geographisch-wissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse meiner Reisen in Zentralasien 1894–97" (Supplement 28 to "Petermanns Mitteilungen"), Gotha 1900.
The publication about the second expedition, "Scientific Results of a Journey in Central Asia", increased to six text and two atlas volumes.
"Southern Tibet", the scientific publication on the third expedition, totalled twelve volumes, three of which were atlases.
The results of the Sino-Swedish Expedition were published under the title of "Reports from the scientific expedition to the north-western provinces of China under leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin.
The sino-Swedish expedition".
This publication went through 49 editions.
This documentation was splendidly produced, which made the price so high that only a few libraries and institutes were able to purchase it.
The immense printing costs had to be borne for the most part by Hedin himself, as was also true for the cost of the expeditions.
He used the fees and royalties which he received from his popular science books and for his lectures for the purpose.
Hedin did not himself subject his documentation to scientific evaluation, but rather handed it over to other scientists for the purpose.
Since he shared his experiences during his expeditions as popular science and incorporated them in a large number of lectures, travelogues, books for young people and adventure books, he became known to the general public.
He soon became famous as one of the most well-recognized personalities of his time.
D. Henze wrote the following about an exhibition at the Deutsches Museum entitled "Sven Hedin, the last explorer":
He was a pioneer and pathfinder in the transitional period to a century of specialized research.
No other single person illuminated and represented unknown territories more extensively than he.
His maps alone are a unique creation.
And the artist did not take second place to the savant, who deep in the night rapidly and apparently without effort rapidly created awe inspiring works.
The discipline of geography, at least in Germany, has so far only concerned itself with his popularized reports.
The consistent inclusion of the enormous, still unmined treasures in his scientific work are yet to be incorporated in the regional geography of Asia.
A scientific assessment of Hedin's character and his relationship to National Socialism was undertaken at Bonn University by Professor Hans Böhm, Dipl.-Geogr.
Astrid Mehmel and Christoph Sieker M.A.
as part of the DFG Project "Sven Hedin und die deutsche Geographie" ("Sven Hedin and German Geography").
a) Biography
b) Popular works
Most German publications on Hedin were translated by F.A.
Brockhaus Verlag from Swedish into German.
To this extent Swedish editions are the original text.
Often after the first edition appeared, F.A.
Brockhaus Verlag published abridged versions with the same title.
Hedin had not only an important business relationship with the publisher Albert Brockhaus, but also a close friendship.
Their correspondence can be found in the Riksarkivet in Stockholm.
There is a publication on this subject:
Chris Webber
Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III (born March 1, 1973) is an American former professional basketball player.
He is a five-time NBA All-Star, a five-time All-NBA Team member, a former NBA Rookie of the Year, and a former number one overall NBA draftee.
As a collegiate athlete, he was a first-team All-American and led the Michigan Wolverines' 1991 incoming freshman class known as the Fab Five that reached the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games as freshmen and sophomores.
However, Webber was indicted by a federal grand jury and stripped of his All-American honors by the NCAA as a result of his direct involvement in the Ed Martin scandal.
He is also a former National High School Basketball Player of the Year who led his high school Detroit Country Day to three Michigan State High School Basketball Championships, but never won any national championship in college or the NBA.
Webber attended Detroit Country Day School and at the time was the most recruited Michigan high school basketball player since Magic Johnson.
Webber led Country Day to three MHSAA State championships.
As a senior in high school Webber averaged 29.4 points and 13 rebounds per game.
He was named Michigan's Mr. Basketball and the 1990–1991 National High School player of the year.
He was named MVP in both the McDonald's and Dapper Dan All-Star games.
After graduating from Detroit Country Day School, Webber attended the University of Michigan for two years.
While a Michigan Wolverine, Webber led the group of players known as the Fab Five, which included himself, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson.
This group, all of whom entered Michigan as freshmen in the fall of 1991, took the basketball team to the NCAA finals twice, losing both times.
The Fab Five, sporting long, baggy shorts and black socks, became immensely popular as they were seen as bringing a hip hop flavor to the game.
Four of the Fab Five (Webber, Rose, Howard, and King) made it to the NBA.
In their first season, the Fab Five led Michigan to a NCAA championship game against Duke, becoming the first team in NCAA history to compete in the championship with freshmen as all five starters.
On April 5, 1993, at Michigan's second consecutive appearance at the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship game with 11 seconds remaining, Webber brought the ball up the court into a half court trap.
Michigan was down 73–71.
Webber attempted to call for a timeout while his team had none remaining, resulting in a technical foul that effectively clinched the game for North Carolina.
Webber continues to receive ridicule for his time-out error; when he joined "Inside the NBA" in 2008, part of the humorous initiation ceremony was the question "In college basketball how many timeouts do you get in a game?"
(Webber replied, "I still don't know the answer!")
His father has a license plate that says timeout.
The error was later referenced in the 2018 sports comedy film Uncle Drew, in which Webber played the role of Preacher.
The game marked the end of Webber's acclaimed two-year collegiate basketball career.
In his second season, he was a first team All-American selection and a finalist for the John R. Wooden Award and Naismith College Player of the Year.
These awards and honors have been vacated due to University of Michigan and NCAA sanctions related to the University of Michigan basketball scandal.
In that scandal, Webber received over $200,000 from a local booster while playing basketball for Michigan.
Webber was convicted of perjury and banned from any affiliation with the Michigan program until 2013.
Despite the ban, Webber attended the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship game between Michigan and Louisville.
He apparently watched the game from a private suite, rather than in the grandstands near courtside, where the other members of the Fab Five watched the game together.
Webber posted on Twitter before the game: "I'm here at the Georgia Dome to show my support for the Michigan men's basketball team in its quest for a National Championship.
I've known some of the players on the team since they were kids and I am excited for them and all of the student athletes on the court tonight who are wearing the Michigan uniform.
It has been a great season and I wish them all the best."
Webber was selected by the Orlando Magic with the first pick of the 1993 NBA draft, becoming the first sophomore since Magic Johnson to be a #1 overall draft pick.
The Magic immediately traded him to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for Penny Hardaway and three future first round draft picks.
Over his 15-year NBA career, Webber made over $176 million.
Webber had an outstanding first year, averaging 17.5 points and 9.1 rebounds per game and winning the NBA Rookie of the Year Award.
He was instrumental in leading the Warriors back into the playoffs where they were swept by the Charles Barkley-led Phoenix Suns in three games.
However, he had a long-standing conflict with his coach, Don Nelson.
Nelson wanted to make Webber primarily a post player, despite Webber's superb passing ability and good ball handling skills for someone his size at tall.
Webber also disliked playing a substantial amount of time at center, given Nelson's propensity towards smaller, faster line ups.
In the 1994 off-season, the Warriors acquired Rony Seikaly so that Webber could play primarily at power forward.
However, at the time, the differences between Webber and Nelson were considered to be irreconcilable.