Gustavus von Tempsky (1828–1868), adventurer, newspaper correspondent and soldier
He had been courting Emelia Ross Bell at the nearby British settlement of Bluefields (or Blewfields) before he left, but her father did not approve, probably because of his youth and lack of prospects.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Otto von Bismarck | Alexander von Humboldt | Wernher von Braun | Carl Maria von Weber | Herbert von Karajan | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | John von Neumann | Lars von Trier | Ferdinand von Mueller | Paul von Hindenburg | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Heinrich von Kleist | Anne Sofie von Otter | Erich von Stroheim | Max von Sydow | Justus von Liebig | Hermann von Helmholtz | Franz von Papen | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Carl von Clausewitz | Von Ryan's Express | Richard von Weizsäcker | Theodore von Kármán | Manfred von Richthofen | Erich von Däniken | Dita Von Teese | Albrecht von Haller | Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden | Carl Michael von Hausswolff |
He published the Little Red Schoolbook in the 1970s (widely criticised for its subversive content), and Tim Shadbolt's autobiographical Bullshit and Jellybeans, as well as significant works on artists C.F. Goldie and Gustavus von Tempsky.