Satan came to Floreana Island: Frederick Ritter's Life as Robinson on Galapagos
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Satan came to Floreana Island: Frederick Ritter's Life as Robinson on Galapagos
By the 1920s, Europe was weary of war. Many on the continent began to dream of finding a place where they could create a peaceful, idyllic life for themselves. Two events came together to convince some of them that they would be able to find it in the Galápagos: the publication of American naturalist William Beebe’s bestselling 1924 book titled Galápagos: World’s End, and the Ecuadorian government’s offer of free plots of land with hunting and fishing rights and no taxes for ten years to anyone wishing to settle there. One such European was Dr. Frederick Ritter, a German dentist, philosopher, and vegetarian. He longed to indulge his raw food theories and work on his theosophist — a “hidden†science that attempts to reconcile scientific, philosophical, and religious disciplines into a unified worldview — treatise in the company of his devoted disciple and girlfriend, Dore Strauch. He decided that the Galápagos would make a perfect base for those endeavors. They arrived on Floreana Island in 1929. Over the following three years, Dr. Ritter wrote letters back home , which became highly popular. Much to the Ritters’ disappointment, however, the popularity of their story began to draw other would-be inhabitants to Floreana. In September 1932, Margret and Heinz Wittmer of Cologne, Germany, came to Floreana. Like others before them, they came for a more peaceful lifestyle and to avoid post-war Germany’s financial meltdown. But unlike most of them, the Wittmers were extremely successful at agriculture and stayed on. The reception by the Ritters, unfortunately, was cool. Margret and Heinz Wittmer were down-to-earth types, while Dr. Ritter believed his philosophical rhetoric was beyond the intellectual levels of the island’s newest residents. After his sudden and horrible death Ritter's famous and historical important letters were published 1936 in the German book "Als Robinson auf Galapagos". Untill now, they were never translated into English. Nicolas Montemolinos, the well known Ecuadorian author, is now the first one who translated them. You can read them in this ebook.
