Eduard Pechuel-Loesche ( German: Eduard Pechuel-Loesche ; July 26, 1840, Cieschen - May 29, 1913, Munich ) is a German geographer and explorer of Africa.
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Pechuel-Leshe studied science in Leipzig, received a Ph.D. In 1886 he received the qualification of professor of geography and ethnology in Jena . In 1895, he accepted the appointment as a professor at the University of Erlangen.
Since the sixties, Pehuel-Leshe has made long trips to the West Indies, North and South America, to the islands of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. He also walked in the South and the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Strait. In 1874-1876, he was a member of a German expedition on the coast of Loango , led by Paul Gusfeldt. He participated in the creation of the Congo Free State and served there from 1882 to 1883 as a representative of Stanley . In the years 1884-1885 he traveled with his wife to West Africa, Walvis Bay and the land of Herero .
Eduard Pehuel-Leshe painted during his travels about 400 watercolors, which later became the property of the Geographic Workshop in Hamburg.
Proceedings
- Güßfeldt, Falkenstein und Pechuel-Loesche: Die Loango-Expedition , Leipzig 1882, Pechuel-Loesche bearbeitete die 1. Hälfte der 3. Abt.
- Die Bewirtschaftung tropischer Gebiete , Straßburg 1885
- Stanley und das Kongounternehmen , 1885
- Kongoland , Jena 1887
- Brehms Tierleben (Bearb.), 3. Ausgabe, 10 Bde., Leipzig 1890-93
- Die Loangoexpedition III.2 (Volkskunde), 1907
Literature
- Deutsches Koloniallexikon, hrsg. v. Heinrich Schnee, Leipzig 1920, Band 3, S. 29