Dragutin Lerman

Dragutin Lerman ( born August 24, 1863 in Požega Slavonia, † July 12, 1918 in Kreševo ​​in today's Central Bosnia Canton ) was a Croatian explorer.

Lerman joined in 1882, Henry Morton Stanley, who graduated in the Order of Leopold II treaties with tribal chiefs in the Congo area, to allow its dream of the Congo Free State.

After Lerman had won the confidence of Leopold II, Lerman fitted out their own expeditions; total, he traveled to the Congo four times over a longer period (1882-1885, 1888-1890, 1892-1894 and 1896). He discovered the kwil waterfalls, which he named in honor of the Croatian noble family Zrinski.

Lermans Diaries ( Dnevnik iz Afrike; German: "Diary from Africa" ​​, 1891, Novi dnevnik iz Afrike; German: "New Diary from Africa " ) inspired the brothers Mirko and Stjepan Seljan on their trips to Africa and South America. A lot of the artifacts that Lerman had collected on his travels, namely 493, are today in Zagreb Ethnographic Museum, his original diaries are held by the Croatian Croatian Academy of Sciences.

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