HENRI

See also:

• HENRI DUVEYRIER (184o-1892)

DUVEYRIER (184o-1892)  , French explorer of the Sahara, was born in Paris on the 28th of February 184o . His youth was spent partly in London, where he met Heinrich Barth, then preparing the narrative of his travels in the western Sudan . At the age of nineteen Duveyrier, who had already learnt Arabic, began a journey in the northern parts of the Sahara which lasted nearly three years . On returning to France he received, in 1863, the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Society, and in 1864 published Exploration du Sahara: les Touareg du nord . In the war of 187o he was taken prisoner by the Germans . Subsequently he made several other journeys in the Sahara, adding considerably to the knowledge of the regions immediately south of the Atlas, from the eastern confines of Morocco to Tunisia . He also examined the Algerian and Tunisian chats and explored the interior of western Tripoli . Duveyrier devoted special attention to the customs and speech of the Tuareg, with whom he lived for months at a time, and to the organization of the Senussi . In 1881 he published La Tunisie, and in 1884 La Confrerie musselmane de Sidi Mohammed Ben Ali-Es-Senossi et son domaine geographique . He died at Sevres on the 25th of April 1892 .