Pellegrino Matteucci

Pellegrino Matteucci ( born October 12, 1850 in Ravenna, † August 8, 1881 in London ) was an Italian traveler Africa.

Matteucci went in December 1878 on behalf of the trade Geographical Society of Italy to Abyssinia and traveled the country to the northern limit of the Shoah. Back in Italy, he undertook in the spring of 1880 with a young Prince Borghese a new journey through Egypt and Darfur Wadai.

This, Matteuccis third trip, led by Sawakin the Red Sea via Khartoum by Darfur, south along the Lake Chad by Kanem -Bornu, Kano and Bida over to the delta of the Niger. On the Gulf of Guinea Matteucci and his companion found a passage to England. Arriving in Liverpool and on the train to London, Matteucci suffered a severe attack of fever. Despite medical help, he died the following day, August 8, 1881 in a London hotel. His body was transferred to Bologna. There, in the Carthusian monastery church, let him friends and traveling companions, a mausoleum built. The scientific evaluation of its crossing of Africa, it initially did not.

Works

• La spedizione italiana all ' Africa equatorlale (Bologna 1875)
• La cremazione del Cadaveri (Bologna 1875)
• In Abissinia ( Milan 1880).