WILHELM See also:

• WILHELM JUNKER (1840-1892)

JUNKER (1840-1892)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German explorer of See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MOSCOW (Russian Moskva)
• MOSCOW, (Russian Moskva)

Moscow on the 6th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1840 . He studied See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine at Dorpat, See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin and See also:

• PRAGUE (Ger. Prag; Bohemian Praha)

Prague, but did not practise for See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long . After a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short journeys to See also:

• ICELAND (Dan. Island)

Iceland, See also:

• TUNIS

Tunis and See also:

• LOWER

Lower See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, he remained almost continuously in eastern See also:

• EQUATORIAL

Equatorial Africa from 1875 to 1886, making first See also:

• KHARTUM

Khartum and afterwards Lado the See also:

• BASE

base of his expeditions, See also:

• JUNKER, WILHELM (1840-1892)

Junker was a leisurely traveller and a careful observer; his See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main See also:

• OBJECT

object was to study the peoples with whom he came into contact, and to collect specimens of See also:

• PLANTS

plants and animals, and the result of his investigations in these particulars is given in his Reisen in Afrika (3 vols., See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, 1889–1891), a See also:

• WORK

work of high merit . An See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation by A . H . See also:

• KEANE, JOHN JOSEPH (1839– )

Keane was published in 1890-1892 . Perhaps the greatest service he rendered to See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science was his investigation of the See also:

• NILE
• NILE, BATTLE OF THE
• NILE, SOBAT

Nile-See also:

• CONGO

Congo See also:

• WATERSHED

watershed, when he successfully combated Georg See also:

• SCHWEINFURTH, GEORG AUGUST (1836– )

Schweinfurth's hydrographical theories and established the identity of the Welle and See also:

• UBANGI

Ubangi . The Mahdist rising prevented his return to See also:

• EUROPE

Europe through the See also:

• SUDAN (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Sudan, as he had planned to do, in 1884, and an expedition, fitted out in 1885 by his See also:

• BROTHER

brother in St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg, failed to reach him . Junker then determined to go See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south . Leaving See also:

• WADELAI

Wadelai on the 2nd of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1886 he travelled by way of See also:

• UGANDA

Uganda and Tabora and reached See also:

• ZANZIBAR

Zanzibar in See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1886 . In 1887 he received the See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal of the Royal Geographical Society . As an explorer Dunker is entitled to high See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank, his ethnographical observations in the Niam-Niam (Azandeh) See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country being especially valuable .

He died at St Petersburg on the 13th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1892 . See the See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical See also:

• NOTICE

notice by E . G . Ravenstein in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (1892), pp . 185-187 .