Eduard Pechuël-Loesche

Eduard Pechuel - Loesche ( born July 26, 1840 in Zöschen at Merseburg, † May 29, 1913 in Munich) was a German geographer and explorer of Africa.

Life

Pechuel - Loesche studied Natural Sciences in Leipzig, received a doctorate in phil. and 1886 habilitation at the Jena for natural history and ethnology. In 1895 he accepted an appointment as A.O. Professor at the University of Erlangen.

Pechuel - Loesche undertook since the sixties longer trips to the West Indies, North and South America, the coastal regions and the islands of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific. He also went into the southern and northern Arctic Ocean and in the Bering Strait. In the years 1874-1876 he was a member of the German expedition at the Loango coast, under the direction of Paul Güssfeldt. He participated in the founding of the Congo Free State and served there 1882-1883 as Deputy Stanley. 1884 to 1885 he undertook with his wife a trip to South Africa, to Walvis Bay and in the land of the Herero.

Eduard Pechuel - Loesche painted on his travels about 400 watercolors, which came later into the possession of Geography seminar in Hamburg.

Sources and Literature

In-house publications

  • Güssfeldt, Falkenstein and Pechuel - Loesche: The Loango expedition, Leipzig 1882, Pechuel - Loesche worked the first half of the 3rd Dept.
  • The management of tropical areas, Strasbourg 1885
  • Stanley and the Congo venture, 1885
  • Congo country, Jena 1887
  • Brehm's Animal Life (Ed. ), 3rd Edition, 10 vols, Leipzig 1890-93
  • The Loangoexpedition III.2 ( folklore ), 1907
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