Eduard Pechuel-Loesche

Cameroon and Fernando Po . Based on original recordings by Dr. Pechuel-Loesche for the "Gazebo" on wood drawn by R. Cronau.

Eduard Pechuel-Loesche (pseudonym also: ME Plankenau ; born July 26, 1840 in Zöschen near Merseburg , †  May 29, 1913 in Munich ) was a German geographer and Africa explorer .

Life

Pechuel-Loesche studied natural sciences in Leipzig , obtained his doctorate in medicine. phil. and completed his habilitation in 1886 at Jena for geography and ethnology . In 1895 he accepted an appointment as associate professor at the University of Erlangen .

Since the 1860s, Pechuel-Loesche made long journeys to the West Indies , North and South America , the coastal countries and the island world of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific . He also went to the southern and northern Arctic Ocean and the Bering Strait . In the years between 1874 and 1876 he was a member of the German expedition on the Loango coast under the direction of Paul Güßfeldt . He took part in the founding of the Congo State and served there between 1882 and 1883 as Stanley's deputy . From 1884 to 1885 he took his wife on a trip to South West Africa , to Walvis Bay and to the land of the Herero . He was a corresponding member of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Geography and also a member of the Central Association for Commercial Geography and Promotion of German Interests Abroad .

Eduard Pechuel-Loesche painted around 400 watercolors on his travels, which later came into the possession of the Geographical Seminar in Hamburg.

Honors

The plant genus Pechuel-Loeschea O. Hoffm is named after him . from the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

Works

• Güßfeldt, Falkenstein and Pechuel-Loesche: The Loango Expedition . Leipzig 1882, Pechuel-Loesche edited the 1st half of the 3rd department ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
• The management of tropical areas . Strasbourg 1885
• Stanley and the Congo Company . 1885
• Congoland . Jena 1887
• as editor: Brehms Tierleben . 3rd edition, 10 vols., Leipzig 1890–93
• Beatrix Heintze (Ed.): Eduard Pechuel-Loesche: Diaries from the Loango Coast (Central Africa) (February 24, 1875 - May 5, 1876) as well as key words to the diary entries from July 10. until August 19, 1874. University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main 2011 ( online )

literature

• Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Leipzig 1920, Volume 3, p. 29
• Friedrich Linnenberg: Eduard Pechuel-Loesche as a nature observer . In: Mitteilungen der Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft, Volume 10, 1963, pp. 340–356. (accessed August 21, 2016)

Web links

Commons : Eduard Pechuël-Loesche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Eduard Pechuel-Loesche  - Sources and full texts

• Estate in the Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cameroon and Lüderitz-Land . In: The Gazebo . Issue 40, 1884, pp. 665 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
2. ^ Directory of the members of the Thuringian-Saxon Geography Association on March 31, 1885 ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .