THEODOR VON See also: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
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His See also:father was a See also:Protestant pastor, and he was trained to be a See also:mining engineer
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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
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In 185o he went to See also:Egypt where he learnt Arabic, afterwards visiting See also:Arabia Petraea
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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
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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
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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
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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
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According to the See also:majority of panions including See also:Werner See also:Munzinger, Gottlob Kinzelbach,
and Dr See also:Hermann Steudner
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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
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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
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He and Steudner reached Khartum in 1862 and there joined the party organized by See also:Miss Tinne
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With her or on their own See also:account, they travelled up the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.)
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A See also:list of the more important of his numerous contributions to See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
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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