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German explorers of Africa

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The list German explorers of Africa includes Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Hermann Detzner, Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Gustav Nachtigal and Emin Pasha. The list consists of 49 members.

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  • 1.

    Gustav Adolf von Götzen
    German, Explorer
    Gustav Adolf von Götzen
    Overview: Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen (12 May 1866 – 2 December 1910) was a German explorer and Governor of German East Africa. He came to Rwanda in 1894 at the head of a troop of 620 soldiers, becoming the second ...
    Date of birth: 12 May 1866
    Date of death: 2 December 1910
    Age: 44 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
    Gender: Male
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    Schutztruppe personnel 28T
    People of former German colonies 21T
    People from Kłodzko County 20T
  • 2.

    Emin Pasha
    African explorer
    Emin Pasha
    Overview: Mehmed Emin Pasha (born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer; March 28, 1840 – October 23, 1892) was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor ...
    Date of birth: 28 March 1840
    Date of death: 23 October 1892
    Age: 52 (age at death)
    Nationality: Egyptian
    Occupation: Explorer
    Gender: Male
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    Kolegium Carolinum Neisse alumni 5T
    Converts to Lutheranism from Judaism 48T
    Colonial people of German East Africa 27T
  • 3.

    Johannes Hildebrandt
    German explorer, collector, and scientist (1847–1881)
    Overview: Johann Maria Hildebrandt (born 13 or 19 March 1847; died 29 May 1881) was a German explorer, collector, and scientist.
    Date of birth: 1847
    Date of death: 1881
    Age: 33 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
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    Hermann Detzner
    German engineer and surveyor
    Hermann Detzner
    Overview: Hermann Philipp Detzner (16 October 1882 – 1 December 1970) was a German engineer and surveyor, who served as an officer in the German colonial security force (Schutztruppe) in Kamerun (Cameroon) and German ...
    Date of birth: 16 October 1882
    Date of death: 1 December 1970
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Male
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    German male non-fiction writers 2,538T
    Colonial people of German New Guinea 7T
    Schutztruppe personnel 28T
  • 5.
    Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg
    Overview: Duke Friedrich Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg (German: Friedrich Paul Wilhelm, Herzog von Württemberg; 25 June 1797, Bad Carlsruhe, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia – 25 November 1860, Mergentheim, Kingdom of ...
    Date of birth: 25 June 1797
    Date of death: 25 November 1860
    Age: 63 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Explorer
    Gender: Male
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    German explorers of North America 9T
    Grand Crosses of the Friedrich Order 55T
    People from Namysłów County 8T
  • 6.

    Johannes Rebmann
    German missionary and African explorer
    Johannes Rebmann
    Overview: Johannes Rebmann (January 16, 1820 – October 4, 1876) was a German missionary, linguist, and explorer credited with feats including being the first European, along with his colleague Johann Ludwig Krapf ...
    Date of birth: 16 January 1820
    Date of death: 4 October 1876
    Age: 56 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
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    Linguists of Chewa 6T
    Anglican missionaries in Tanzania 20T
    Anglican missionaries in Kenya 7T
  • 7.
    Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg
    Overview: Adolf Friedrich Albrecht Heinrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (German: Adolf Friedrich Albrecht Heinrich, Herzog zu Mecklenburg; 10 October 1873 – 5 August 1969), was a German explorer in Africa, a colonial ...
    Date of birth: 10 October 1873
    Date of death: 5 August 1969
    Age: 95 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
    Gender: Male
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    Recipients of the Order of Henry the Lion 74T
    Recipients of the Order of the Netherlands Lion 157T
    Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Alexander (Bulgaria) 109T
  • 8.

    Adolf Bastian
    German anthropologist
    Adolf Bastian
    Overview: Adolf Philipp Wilhelm Bastian (26 June 1826 – 2 February 1905) was a 19th-century polymath best remembered for his contributions to the development of ethnography and the development of anthropology ...
    Date of birth: 26 June 1826
    Date of death: 2 February 1905
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Male
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    Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 166T
    German male writers 4,579T
    Heidelberg University alumni 833T
  • 9.

    Gustav Nachtigal
    German explorer
    Gustav Nachtigal
    Overview: Gustav Nachtigal (born 23 February 1834 – 20 April 1885) was a German explorer of Central and West Africa. He is further known as the German Empire's consul-general for Tunisia and Commissioner for West ...
    Date of birth: 23 February 1834
    Date of death: 20 April 1885
    Age: 51 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
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    German expatriates in Tunisia 2T
    German expatriates in Algeria 3T
    People of former German colonies 21T
  • 10.

    Karl Peters
    German explorer and colonial administrator (1856–1918)
    Karl Peters
    Overview: Carl Peters (27 September 1856 – 10 September 1918), was a German colonial ruler, explorer, politician and author and a major promoter of the establishment of the German colony of East Africa (part of ...
    Date of birth: 27 September 1856
    Date of death: 10 September 1918
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
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    Colonial people of German East Africa 27T
    People of former German colonies 21T
    People from Lüneburg (district) 10T
  • 11.
    Adam Render
    Overview: Jan Adam Render (surname often recorded as Renders; 1822–1881) was a German-American hunter, prospector and trader in southern Africa who is generally recorded as the first European to see the ancient ...
    Date of birth: 1822
    Date of death: 1881
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Explorer
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  • 12.
    Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Mechow
    Overview: Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Mechow (born December 9, 1831, in Lauban; d. March 14, 1904 in Jugenheim) was a Prussian explorer of Africa, and a naturalist. Von Mechow was a specialty collector of p ...
    Date of birth: 9 December 1831
    Age: 193
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    German botanists 691T
    German zoologists 287T
    1831 births 1,761T
  • 13.
    Jakob Erhardt
    Overview: , or John James Erhardt, (17 April 1823 – 14 August 1901) was a German missionary and explorer who worked in East Africa and India. Although he remained on or near the coast of East Africa, he c ...
    Date of birth: 17 April 1823
    Date of death: 14 August 1901
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
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    Anglican missionaries in Tanzania 20T
    Anglican missionaries in Kenya 7T
    German Anglican missionaries 17T
  • 14.

    Joachim von Pfeil
    German explorer
    Overview: Count Joachim von Pfeil (1857-1924) was a German explorer and colonist in Africa and New Guinea.
    Date of birth: 1857
    Date of death: 1924
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
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    People of former German colonies 21T
    German explorers 148T
    Counts of Germany 232T
  • 15.

    Gustav Denhardt
    German, Explorer
    Gustav Denhardt
    Overview: Gustav Denhardt (16 June 1856 in Zeitz – 17 July 1917 in Leipzig) and his brother Clemens Andreas Denhardt (3 August 1852 – 7 June 1928), born in Zeitz, Saxony-Anhalt, were distinguished German explorers ...
    Date of birth: 16 June 1856
    Date of death: 17 July 1917
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
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  • 16.

    Paul Reichard
    German explorer
    Overview: Paul Reichard (2 December 1854 – 19 September 1938) was a German explorer who traveled extensively in Africa. His discoveries led to the establishment of the German East Africa Protectorate.
    Date of birth: 2 December 1854
    Date of death: 19 September 1938
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
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  • 17.

    Richard Böhm
    German zoologist and explorer
    Richard Böhm
    Overview: Richard Böhm (1 October 1854 − 27 March 1884) was a German zoologist and explorer.
    Date of birth: 1854
    Date of death: 1884
    Age: 29 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
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  • 18.

    Hermann Steudner
    Botanist
    Hermann Steudner
    Overview: Carl Theodor Hermann Steudner (1 September 1832 – 10 April 1863) was a botanist and an explorer of Africa.
    Date of birth: 1 September 1832
    Date of death: 10 April 1863
    Age: 30 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
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    People from Gryfów Śląski 3T
    Silesian-German people 160T
    German explorers 148T
  • 19.

    Oskar Lenz
    Austrian scientist
    Oskar Lenz
    Overview: Oskar Lenz (13 April 1848 – 1 March 1925) was a German-Austrian geologist and mineralogist born in Leipzig.
    Date of birth: 13 April 1848
    Date of death: 1 March 1925
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: Austrian
    Occupation: Explorer
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  • 20.

    Friedrich Bohndorff
    German ornithologist
    Friedrich Bohndorff
    Overview: Friedrich Bohndorff (August 16, 1848, Plau am See, Mecklenburg-Schwerin - after 1894) was a German researcher and ornithologist.
    Date of birth: 1848
    Age: 176
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Explorer
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