Luigi D'Albertis
Luigi Maria d' Alberti ( born November 21, 1841 in Voltri, east of Genoa, † September 2, 1901 in Sassari ) was an Italian explorer and naturalist.
Life
Little is known about his youth. He broke his training as a soldier in the army of Piedmont from to support his father and spent several years hunting in the Alps and the Apennines. At the age of 18 he joined the army of Garibaldi. 1860 D' Alberti Giuseppe Garibaldi train the thousands joined to Sicily and then studied science.
Expeditions
In November 1871 he took part in an expedition from Genoa with ODOARDO Beccari, which took him to the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea. Here he explored the Vogelkop Peninsula and boarded the Arfakgebirge. Because of dropsy and fever, he traveled in 1873 with a Corvette to Sydney and returned from there in April 1874 back to Europe.
In November 1874 left D' Alberti Italy? ? again and reached in December Cape York (Australia ), but his camp on Yule Iceland was able to open until March 17, (130 km from present-day Port Moresby ). He remained there until November and collected natural history on the island and the adjacent mainland. He fell because of its exaltation in trouble, took a short expedition with a mission steamer in part on the Fly River, and then went to Italy? ? [ Impossible ] back.
To defeat the Fly River, D' Alberti returned in February 1876 back to Sydney and began on May 23, his 45 - day expedition with a small steam launch to him by the Governor of New South Wales had borrowed. He should have come to the Fly River 900 km upriver with a trip to the Ok Tedi. He collected from today's perspective without scruples ethnological artifacts, which earned him strong criticism by later explorers.
D' Alberti began on 3 May 1877, a third Fly River expedition from Cape York to still reach the central mountains of New Guinea with the steam launch. However, it was disastrous, he beat a Chinese expedition to death and his crew deserted. He gave up and came on January 4, 1878 back to its starting point. Although he was accused of the murder, he left Sydney and arrived in England on July 1 at. He then returned to Italy.
The contemporary British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace praised D' Alberti researchers qualities and research activities. His manner and conduct expeditions but his theatrical appearance made him unpopular in Australia, despite his achievements as an explorer.
Publications (excerpt)
- Alla Nuova Guinea: ciò che ho ho fatto che veduto et ciò. 2 vols, London 1880