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JUNKER, WILHELM (1840-1892)
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See also:JUNKER, WILHELM (1840-1892) , See also:German explorer of See also:Africa, was See also:born at See also:Moscow on the 6th of See also:April 1840. He studied See also:medicine at Dorpat, See also:Gottingen, See also:Berlin and See also:Prague, but did not practise for See also:long. After a See also:series of See also:short journeys to See also:Iceland, See also:Tunis and See also:Lower See also:Egypt, he remained almost continuously in eastern See also:Equatorial Africa from 1875 to 1886, making first See also:Khartum and afterwards Lado the See also:base of his expeditions, Junker was a leisurely traveller and a careful observer; his See also:main See also:object was to study the peoples with whom he came into contact, and to collect specimens of See also:plants and animals, and the result of his investigations in these particulars is given in his Reisen in Afrika (3 vols., See also:Vienna, 1889–1891), a See also:work of high merit. An See also:English See also:translation by A. H. See also:Keane was published in 1890-1892. Perhaps the greatest service he rendered to See also:geographical See also:science was his investigation of the See also:Nile-See also:Congo See also:watershed, when he successfully combated Georg See also:Schweinfurth's hydrographical theories and established the identity of the Welle and See also:Ubangi. The Mahdist rising prevented his return to See also:Europe through the See also:Sudan, as he had planned to do, in 1884, and an expedition, fitted out in 1885 by his See also:brother in St See also:Petersburg, failed to reach him. Junker then determined to go See also:south. Leaving See also:Wadelai on the 2nd of See also:January 1886 he travelled by way of See also:Uganda and Tabora and reached See also:Zanzibar in See also:December 1886. In 1887 he received the See also:gold See also:medal of the Royal Geographical Society. As an explorer Dunker is entitled to high See also:rank, his ethnographical observations in the Niam-Niam (Azandeh) See also:country being especially valuable. He died at St Petersburg on the 13th of See also:February 1892. See the See also:biographical See also:notice by E. G. Ravenstein in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (1892), pp. 185-187. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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