Guillaume Lejean

Guillaume Lejean (* 1828 in Plouégat- Guérand, Finistère department, † February 1, 1871 ibid ) was a French explorer and explorer.

Life

Lejean devoted to geographical studies in Paris and was awarded by the French government commissioned to research on the Balkan Peninsula. In its six years of travel in 1857, 1858 and 1867 to 1870, he collected material to an expanded cartography in 49 leaves, of which he could edit himself 20. He also wrote the ethnography of European Turkey, which in 1861 appeared in the supplementary books of Peter 's Geographic releases.

1860 Lejean went to Kordofan and drove on the White Nile to Gondokoro and the Bahr al - Ghazal, from which he could draw the first usable card. In 1862 he went as French consul to Ethiopia, where he was, however, reported in 1863 by King Theodorus. After a trip up north to Kassala and in the Bogosländer he returned in 1864 to Paris.

1865 Lejean went again on a journey to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and in the countries of the Indus to Kashmir. In 1867, he then continued his research in European Turkey continued.

Guillaume Lejean died on 1 February 1871 in his birthplace Plouégat- Guérand.

Works

  • Voyage aux deux Nile. Paris, 1865-68
  • Theodore II, le nouvel empire d' Abyssinie et les interets francais. Paris, 1865
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