Gustav Fischer

Gustav Adolf Fischer ( born March 3, 1848, in Barmen, † November 11, 1886 in Berlin) was a German explorer of Africa.

Fischer was initially a military doctor and joined the 1876 expedition of the brothers Denhardt and made ​​1877 an excursion in the areas of Galla and after witu. Together with the Denhardt then he explored the area in the Tana ( 1878).

Then Fischer lived until October 1882 as a doctor in Zanzibar. In December of that year he took his third major tour, which was supported by the Hamburg Geographical Society. He went from the mouth of the Pangani from the land of the Maasai to the lake Naivasha. On this trip, he watched the Papageiennart Pfirsichköpfchen, which was named after him in 1887 ( Agapornis fischeri ) (also known as Fischer's Lovebirds or Fischer's Lovebird ). In November 1883 Fischer returned to Germany.

1885 Fischer took another trip to visit the Italian Casati, Emin Pasha and Junker. He came to Victoria Nyanza, but could the scenery on the Upper Nile, where the searched were staying, not reach. He therefore went on Kavirondo, the Lake Naivasha and Kikuyu on 21 June 1886 Zanzibar back.

Gustav Adolf Fischer died on 11 November 1886 in Berlin at a tropical fever.

Works

• More light in the dark Africa. Hamburg ( 1885)
• Fischer, GA 1885. Report on undertaken in Hamburg on behalf of the Geographical Society trip to the Masai country. I. General report. - Mitt Geogr Ges Hamburg 5 ( 1882-83 ): 36-99.
• Fischer, GA 1885. Report on undertaken in Hamburg on behalf of the Geographical Society trip to the Masai country. II accompanying words to the original route map table VII - Mitt Geogr Ges Hamburg 5 ( 1882-83 ): 189-237.