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See also:VOGEL, EDUARD (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. He studied See also:mathematics and See also:astronomy at See also:Leipzig and See also:Berlin, and in 1851 engaged in astronomical See also:work in See also:London. In 1853 he was chosen by the See also:British See also:government to take supplies to Heinrich See also:Barth, then in the western See also:Sudan; and Vogel met Barth at See also:Kuka in See also:Bornu (1854). During 1854 and 1855 he explored the countries See also:round See also:Lake See also:Chad and the upper course of the See also:Benue. 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. 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 See also:country in See also:February 1856.
See Erinnerungen an einen Verschollenen (Leipzig, 1863), by Vogel's See also:sister, E. Polko, and Der Afrikaforscher Eduard Vogel (See also:Hamburg, 1889).
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