Gustav Adolf Fischer (Africa explorer)

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Gustav Adolf Fischer (born March 3, 1848 in Barmen (today a district of Wuppertal ), † November 11, 1886 in Berlin ) was a German explorer of Africa .

Fischer initially became a military doctor and joined the Denhardt brothers' expedition in 1876 and made an excursion to the Galla and Witu areas in 1877 . Together with the Denhardts he then explored the area on the Tana (1878).

Fischer then lived as a doctor in Zanzibar until October 1882 . In December of that year he started his third major trip, which was supported by the Hamburg Geographical Society . He went from the mouth of the Pangani into the land of the Maasai to Lake Naivasha . On this trip, he watched the parrot Pfirsichköpfchen , 1887 after him ( Agapornis fischeri was named) (also known as Fischer's lovebirds or Fischer's Lovebird ). Fischer returned to Germany in November 1883.

In 1885 Fischer took another trip to visit the Italians Casati , Emin Pascha and Junker . He got as far as Victoria - Nyansa , but could not reach the landscapes on the upper Nile , where the wanted stayed. He returned to Zanzibar on June 21, 1886 via Kavirondo , Lake Naivasha and Kikuyu .

Gustav Adolf Fischer died on November 11, 1886 in Berlin of a tropical fever.

Works

  • More light in dark Africa . Hamburg (1885)
  • Fischer, GA 1885. Report on the trip to the Maasai country undertaken on behalf of the Geographical Society in Hamburg. I. General report. - Mitt. Geogr. Ges. Hamburg 5 (1882-1883): 36-99.
  • Fischer, GA 1885. Report on the trip to the Maasai country undertaken on behalf of the Geographical Society in Hamburg. II. Accompanying words to the original route map, panel VII. - Mitt. Geogr. Ges. Hamburg 5 (1882–1883): 189–237.

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SURNAME Fischer, Gustav Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Africa explorer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1886
Place of death Berlin