Friedrich Bohndorff

Friedrich Bohndorff ( born August 16, 1848 in Plau; † after 1894) was a German explorer and ornithologist.

Life

Bohndorff initially trained as a goldsmith, but was in 1871 on an extended trip through Switzerland, Savoy and Italy to Tunis, from there via Malta to Egypt. He remained four years in Cairo and there learned the Arabic language. From 1876 to 1879 was followed by a private four-year expedition in the Sudan and Central Africa. On the way back he had his precious collections and records leave during a robbery. 1880-87 he accompanied an expedition of the German - Russian African explorer Wilhelm Junker. In January 1880 they broke from Khartoum in the countries of the Mangbetu and Azande ( Niam - Niam ) to in order to continue the research of Georg Schweinfurth. It was explored by them the headwaters of the Uele and Aruwimi. Ill had Bohndorff return in 1882, the Mahdi uprising blocking his way back and forced him to a more than one-year stay in the Bahr al - Ghazal to the people of the Dinka. In 1887 Bohndorff was in the service of the British governor of Congo Charles George Gordon and undertook with Oskar Lenz and Oscar Baumann a crossed Africa from west to east. Then he went with Dr. Lenz six months to Vienna and Brussels, then return to Cairo. 1889 Bohndorff dragoman of the imperial colonial troops in Africa in Service to Major Hermann von Wissmann. In 1892 he again went to Berlin and now undertook lecture tours through Germany. 1893 and 1895 he was a guest at the annual meeting of the General German Ornithological Society ( adog ). He had his residence at that time in Bagamoyo. On the Death Bohndorffs nothing is known.