Antoine Brun-Rollet

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Antoine Brun-Rollet (* 1810 in St. Jean de Maurienne ( Savoy ), † September 25, 1858 in Khartoum , Sudan ) was a French explorer of Africa .

At the time of Muhammad Ali Pasha's great expedition on the Nile , Brun-Rollet was the Sardinian consul in Khartoum. He was one of the first to set up a trading post for ivory in the newly developed upper Nile region. In 1856 he drove the Bahr al-Ghazal to Meschra er-Rek and brought the first precise information about the course of this river. However, he did not succeed in getting to Darfur .

Brun-Rollet published some essays about his discoveries in Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen and in the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Paris .

Antoine Brun-Rollet died on September 25, 1858 in Khartoum.

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SURNAME Brun-Rollet, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French explorer of Africa
DATE OF BIRTH 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Jean de Maurienne ( Savoy )
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1858
Place of death Khartoum , Sudan