Gustavus von Tempsky
Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky was a Prussian adventurer, artist, newspaper correspondent and soldier in New Zealand, Australia, California, Mexico and the Mosquito Coast of Central America. He was also an amateur watercolourist who painted the New Zealand bush and the military campaign.
Gustav von Tempsky was born in Braunsberg, East Prussia into a Prussian noble family. The family had branches in Silesia and elsewhere and had a long military tradition. Tempsky was brought up in Liegnitz in Lower Silesia. After this time he was sent to a junior cadet school in Potsdam and then a cadet school in Berlin. He was a cousin of the German writer Valeska von Gallwitz. In 1844 he was commissioned into his fathers regiment in the Royal Prussian Army, possibly the GardeFusilier Regiment in which his brother, Benno Waldemar von Tempsky was a second lieutenant.
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