Frédéric Cailliaud

Frédéric Cailliaud ( born June 9, 1787 Nantes, † May 1, 1869 same place ) was a French explorer of Africa.

As goldsmiths traveled Cailliaud Belgium, Holland and Italy. From Sicily he made a trip to Greece and Constantinople Opel. In 1815 he came to Egypt, and went with Drovetti the Nile to the second cataract upwards. After Mohammed Ali asked him to mineralogical exploration of the country, discovered in 1818 by Caillaud Edfu from the emerald mines at Jebel Sebra. In November 1819 he traveled from Faiyum in the oases of Siwa, Bahariyya, Farafra, Dakhla and Kharga. Beginning of 1820, he came back to the Nile.

In the subsequent campaign of Ibrahim Pasha Cailliaud could get the first exact knowledge of the areas around Fasokl and Sennar. After these travels, he returned to France and worked since 1836 until his death as a curator at the Museum of his native city.

Frédéric Cailliaud died on 1 May 1869 in Nantes.

Works

  • Voyage à Meroë: au fleuve Blanc, au- delà de Fazoql dans le royaume du midi de Snnâr à Syouah tc .. 4 vols Paris ( 1823-27 ), with Atlas
  • Recherches sur les arts et métiers, les usages de la vie civile et domestique of the anciens de l' Égypte peuples, de la Nubie et de l' Ethiopie. 2 vols Paris (1822 ff )
  • Voyage à l' Oasis de Thèbes etc. 2 vols Paris ( 1823)
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