EDUARD

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