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Also Known As Karl Gottlieb Mauch
Born May 7, 1837 • Germany
Died April 4, 1875 (aged 37) • Stuttgart • Germany
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Ludwig Leichhardt.
Ludwig Leichhardt
German explorer
Mehmed Emin Pasha (left) and Sir Henry Morton Stanley meeting near Lake Albert in east-central Africa, April 29, 1888.
Mehmed Emin Pasha
German explorer
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth
German geographer and explorer
Maximilian, prince zu Wied-Neuwied
German naturalist and explorer
Karl Weyprecht
polar explorer
Georg August Schweinfurth, detail from an engraving by A. Weger, after a photograph.
Georg August Schweinfurth
German botanist
Carl Peters, oil painting by Herbert Sidney, 1912
Carl Peters
German explorer
Friederich Konrad Hornemann
German explorer
Drygalski
Erich Dagobert von Drygalski
German geographer
Gerhard Rohlfs
German explorer
Carsten Niebuhr
German explorer
Nachtigal, detail from an engraving by V. Froer
Gustav Nachtigal
German explorer
Adolf Overweg
German astronomer, geologist, and traveler
Eduard Rüppell
German explorer
Flegel, engraving
Eduard Robert Flegel
German explorer
Hermann von Wissmann
German explorer
Schomburgk, engraving
Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk
British explorer

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