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See also:NACHTIGAL, GUSTAV (1834-1885) , See also:German explorer in Central See also:Africa, son of a Lutheran pastor, was See also:born at Eichstedt in the See also:Mark of See also:Brandenburg, on the 23rd of See also:February 1834. After medical study at the See also:universities of See also:Halle, See also:Wurzburg and Greifswald, he practised for a few years as a military surgeon. Finding the See also:climate of his native See also:country injurious to his See also:health, he went to See also:Algiers and See also:Tunis, and took See also:part, as a surgeon, in several expeditions into the interior. Commissioned by the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Prussia to carry gifts to the See also:sultan of See also:Bornu in See also:acknowledgment of kindness shown to German travellers, he set out in 1869 from See also:Tripoli, and succeeded after two years' journeyings in accomplishing his See also:mission. During this See also:period he visited See also:Tibesti and See also:Borku, regions of the central See also:Sahara not previously known to Europeans. From Bornu he went to See also:Bagirmi, and, proceeding by way of See also:Wadai and See also:Kordofan, emerged from darkest Africa, after having been given up for lost, at See also:Khartum in the See also:winter of 1874. His See also:journey, graphically described in his Sahara and See also:Sudan (3 vols., 1879-1889), placed the intrepid explorer in the front See also:rank of discoverers. On the See also:establishment of a See also:protectorate over See also:Tunisia by See also:France, Nachtigal was sent thither as See also:consul-See also:general for the German See also:empire, and remained there until 1884, when he was despatched by See also:Prince See also:Bismarck to See also:West Africa as See also:special See also:commissioner, ostensibly to inquire into the See also:condition of German See also:commerce, but really to annex territories to the German See also:flag. As the result of his mission See also:Togoland and Cameroon were added to the German empire. On his return voyage he died at See also:sea off Cape Palmas on the loth of See also:April 1885, and was buried at See also:Grand Bassam.
Nachtigal's travels are summarized in Gustav Nachtigal's Reisen in der Sahara and See also:im Sudan, by Dr See also:Albert See also:Frankel (See also:Leipzig, 1887). A See also:French See also:translation, by J. See also:van Vollenhoven, of that part of his See also:work concerning Wadai, appeared in the See also:Bull. du comite de l'Afriq. francaise for 1903 under the See also:title of " Le Voyage de Nachtigal au Ouadai." Nachtigal died before transcribing his notes on Wadai, and they were edited in the German edition by E. Groddeck.
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