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THEODOR VON 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 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 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 Vogel, his corn- council of that See also: body, in 1649
.
According to the majority of panions including See also: Werner See also: Munzinger, Gottlob Kinzelbach,
and Dr 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 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 account, they travelled up theSee 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 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 series of explorations in 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 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 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 (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 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 close of the necrological See also: notice
.
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