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THEODOR VON HEUGLIN (1824-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 416 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEUGLIN (1824-1876)  , See also:German traveller in See also:north-See also:east See also:Africa, was See also:born on the 20th of See also:March 1824 at Hirschlanden near Leonberg in See also:Wurttemberg . His See also:father was a See also:Protestant pastor, and he was trained to be a See also:mining engineer . He was ambitious, however, to become a scientific investigator of unknown regions, and with that See also:object studied the natural sciences, especially See also:zoology . In 185o he went to See also:Egypt where he learnt Arabic, afterwards visiting See also:Arabia Petraea . In 1852 he accompanied Dr Reitz, See also:Austrian See also:consul at See also:Khartum, on a See also:journey to See also:Abyssinia, and in the next See also:year was appointed Dr Reitz's successor in the consulate . While he held this See also:post he travelled in Abyssinia and See also:Kordofan, making a valuable collection of natural See also:history specimens . In 1857 he journeyed through the See also:coast lands of the See also:African See also:side of the Red See also:Sea, and along the Somali coast . In 186o' he was chosen See also:leader of an expedition to See also:search for Eduard See also:Vogel, his See also:corn- See also:council of that See also:body, in 1649 . According to the See also:majority of panions including See also:Werner See also:Munzinger, Gottlob Kinzelbach, and Dr See also:Hermann Steudner . In See also:June 1861 the party landed at See also:Massawa, having instructions to go See also:direct to Khartum and thence to See also:Wadai, where Vogel was thought to be detained . See also:Heuglin, accompanied by Dr Steudner, turned aside and made a wide detour through Abyssinia and the Galla See also:country, and in See also:con-sequence the leadership of the expedition was taken from him . He and Steudner reached Khartum in 1862 and there joined the party organized by See also:Miss Tinne .

With her or on their own See also:

account, they travelled up the See also:White See also:Nile to See also:Gondokoro and explored a See also:great See also:part of the See also:Bahr-el-Ghazal, where Steudner died of See also:fever on the loth of See also:April 1863 . Heuglin returned to See also:Europe at the end of 1864 . In 1870 and 1871 he made a valuable See also:series of explorations in See also:Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya; but 1875 found him again in north-east Africa, in the country of the Beni Amer and See also:northern Abyssinia . He was preparing for an exploration of the See also:island of See also:Sokotra, when he died, at See also:Stuttgart, on the 5th of See also:November 1876 . It is principally by his zoological, and more especially his ornithological, labours that Heuglin has taken See also:rank as an See also:independent authority . His See also:chief See also:works are Systematische Ubersicht der Vogel Nordost-Afrikas (1855).; Reisen in Nordost-Afrika, 1852–1853 (See also:Gotha, 1857); Syst . Ubersicht der Saugetiere Nordost-Afrikas (See also:Vienna, 1867); Reise Hach Abessinien, den Gala-Ldndern, &c., 1861–1862 (See also:Jena, 1868); Reise in das Gebiet See also:des Weissen Nil, &c . 1862—1864 (See also:Leipzig, 1869) ; Reisen See also:neck dem Nordpolarmeer, 1870-1871 (Bruns-See also:wick, 1872–1874) ; Ornithologie von Nordost-Afrika (See also:Cassel, 1869–1875); Reise in Nordost-Afrika (See also:Brunswick, 1877, 2 vols.) . A See also:list of the more important of his numerous contributions to See also:Peter nann's Mitteilungen will be found in that serial for 1877 at the See also:close of the necrological See also:notice .

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