A. von Schmidt auf Altenstadt

Very little biographical information could be confirmed about this author from reliable sources consulted here. Public-domain book records identify A. von Schmidt auf Altenstadt as the author of Van het land van de rijzende zon (1903) and Reisherinneringen uit Korea en China (1904), both Dutch-language travel works.

Those books suggest a writer interested in East Asia at a time when Western readers were eager for first-hand travel accounts. In Reisherinneringen uit Korea en China, the focus is on places, encounters, and observations from travel through Korea and China, giving modern readers a snapshot of how the region was described in Dutch-language publishing at the start of the 20th century.

Because trustworthy biographical details are scarce, it is safest to remember this author through the books themselves: engaging travel writing that now also serves as a historical document of its era.