Schweinfurth, Georg August

Schweinfurth, Georg August

▪ German botanist
born December 29, 1836, Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire [now in Latvia]
died September 19, 1925, Berlin, Germany
 German botanist and traveler who explored the region of the upper Nile River basin known as the Baḥr al Ghazāl and discovered the Uele River, a tributary of the Congo.

      Schweinfurth's interest in African plants took him across the Red Sea to the Sudanese port of Suakin and overland to Khartoum (now the capital of The Sudan) in 1863. On his return to Berlin in 1866, he obtained a grant permitting him to conduct a botanical exploration in the Baḥr al Ghazāl region. In January of 1869 he went back by way of Suakin to Khartoum, where he began his ascent of the White Nile River and then ventured into the southwestern Sudan region with a party of ivory traders. He visited the Bongo and Mangbetu peoples as well as the allegedly cannibalistic Naim-Naim, who filed their teeth to points. He also provided the first authoritative account of the Congo Pygmies. Schweinfurth crossed the Nile-Congo watershed and, in March 1870, reached the westward-flowing Uele River, an affluent of the Congo, which he mistook for a part of the Niger River. His discovery of the Uele, however, helped toward a final estimate of the extent of the Nile system. In 1873 Schweinfurth published The Heart of Africa. From 1875 to 1888 he lived in Cairo, studying the botany, geology, paleontology, and archaeology of Egypt and Middle Eastern regions.

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