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EDUARD VOGEL (1829-1856) , See also: German traveller in Central See also: Africa, was See also: born at Krefeld on the 7th of See also: March 1829
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He studied
See also: mathematics and astronomy at See also: Leipzig and Berlin, and in 1851 engaged in astronomical See also: work in See also: London
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In 1853 he was chosen by the See also: British See also: government to take supplies to Heinrich Barth, then in the western Sudan; and Vogel met Barth at See also: Kuka in See also: Bornu (1854)
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During 1854 and 1855 he explored the countries round Lake See also: Chad and the upper course of the See also: Benue
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On the 1st of See also: December 1855 he See also: left Kuka for the See also: Nile Valley, and nothing further was heard of him
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Several See also: search expeditions were organized to ascertain his See also: fate and to recover his papers; it was not until 1873 that Gustav See also: Nachtigal on reaching See also: Wadai learnt that Vogel had been murdered in that country in See also: February 1856
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See Erinnerungen an einen Verschollenen (Leipzig, 1863), by Vogel's See also: sister, E
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Polko, and Der Afrikaforscher Eduard Vogel (See also: Hamburg, 1889)
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