Thank God Krause

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Gottlob Adolf Krause (born January 5, 1850 in Ockrilla near Meißen , † February 19, 1938 in Zurich ) was a German explorer of Africa .

Life

Gottlob Krause attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig , which he left out of enthusiasm for exploring Africa, ended up in Tripoli and found a job as a dog groom with Alexandrine Tinné in 1869 , but returned to Europe before the same was murdered by the Tuareg (August 1, 1869) back because his employer had fired him after the death of her favorite dog.

In 1878 he received support from the African Society in Germany to go to Wadai , but only traveled to Tripoli, where he studied linguistic studies until 1880.

At the beginning of 1884 he left Europe again to explore the areas of Niger , Benue and Chad on behalf of Emil Riebeck . However, this expedition did not take place due to Riebeck's untimely death, and Krause now took up the waterway east from Lagos to Mahin in the Niger region, which he then traveled to.

In May 1886 Krause began a journey north from Accra , drove up the Volta to Kete Krachi , went from there to the large trading and transshipment point Salaga , in order to establish a connection between it and Salaga by exploring the eastern hinterland of the Togo region . and then left for Timbuktu . In September / October 1886 he was the first European to visit Ouagadougou , the then kingdom of the Mossi and today's capital of Burkina Faso . From there he crossed the kingdom of Yatenga and reached the place Bandiagara in today's Mali via Douentza . On the way back to Accra, where he finally arrived in September 1887, he visited Ouagadougou and Salaga again.

Since Krause preferred to work purely scientifically and did not want to serve the colonial political goals of the German and English governments, he often got into trouble. A remarkable collection of 1,700 West African everyday objects, including baskets, which he acquired in Salaga and systematically described, found no interest in German museums in 1889. Only the Leiden Museum of Ethnology was interested. Many of his other scientific notes were simply destroyed as garbage because they were not relevant after the death of the very dilapidated Krause.

Fonts

  • A contribution to the knowledge of the Julian language in Africa . In: Communications from the Riebeck Nigerian Expedition . (1884)
  • Samples of the Ghat language in the Sahara . (Leipzig 1884).
  • The music language in Central Africa . In: Publications of the Vienna Academy . Vienna (1886)
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the climate of Salaga, Togo and the Gold Coast . Treatises of the Imperial Leopoldin-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher (Halle / Saale) , 93 (3) (1910) pp. 193–472 (= sub-title of Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosoru ).

literature

  • Peter Sebald : Malam Musa, Gottlob Adolf Krause: 1850-1938. Researcher, scientist, humanist. Life and work of an anti-colonial-minded Africa scientist under the conditions of colonialism. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972
  • Gottlob A. Krause: Tripolitan War Diary (Cognoscere, Vol.23) (Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2014)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map of the waterway from Lagos eastwards towards the Niger to Agboto. With the participation of Consul Heinrich Bey and Ms. Eugenie Krause recorded the 3rd – 5th May and 10-13 August 1884 and drawn by Gottlob Adolph Krause. Bibliothèque numérique de Chambéry.
  2. ↑ Michel Izard: Moogo. L'Émérgence d'un espace étatique ouest-africain au XVIe siècle . P. 28, Éditions Karthala, Paris 2003
personal data
SURNAME Krause, thank God
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krause, Gottlob Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Africa explorer
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Ockrilla near Meissen
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1938
Place of death Zurich