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Heinrich Karl Eckard Helmuth von Maltzan (September 6, 1826– February 23, 1874), also known as Heinrich Eckhard Carl Helmuth von Maltzan and by his title Baron of Wartenburg and Penzlin, was a German traveller.
Life
Heinrich von Maltzan was born near Dresden. He studied law at Heidelberg, but on account of ill health spent much of his time from 1850 in travel.
He was a passionate traveller as well as an attentive observer and a good storyteller. Succeeding to his father's property in 1852, he extended the range of his journeys to Morocco and other parts of Barbary. Before his return home in 1854, he had also visited Egypt, Palestine, and other countries of the Levant. In 1856-1857 he was again in Algeria; in 1858 he reached the cities of Morocco; and in 1860 he succeeded in performing the pilgrimage to Mecca, which he afterwards described in Meine Wallfahrt nach Mekka (Leipzig, 1865). He had to flee for his life to Jidda without visiting Medina.