| LC control no. | n 50021540 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Andersson, Charles John, 1827-1867 |
| Variant(s) | Anderson, Charles John, 1827-1867 Andersson, Karl Johan, 1827-1867 Andersson, C. J. (Charles John), 1827-1867 Andersson, Ch. J., 1827-1867 Andersson, Karl Johann, 1827-1867 Andersson, Karl John, 1827-1867 |
| Associated country | Sweden Namibia |
| Associated place | Otjimbingwe (Namibia) |
| Birth date | 1827-03-04 |
| Death date | 1867-07-09 |
| Place of birth | Värmlands län (Sweden) |
| Place of death | Omutwe-Onjambu (Angola) |
| Field of activity | Namibia--Description and travel |
| Profession or occupation | Merchants Naturalists Explorers |
| Found in | His Notes on the birds of Damara land ... 1872. His Trade and politics in Central Namibia, 1860-1864, 1989: t.p. (Charles John Andersson) His The Matchless Copper Mine in 1857, 1987: t.p. (C.J. Andersson; Charles John Andersson); OCLC #20188850 (hdg.: Andersson, Karl Johann, 1827-1867) Afrika, dargestellt in den Forschungen und Erlebnissen der berühmtesten Reisenden neuerer Zeit, 1861-1865?: 5. Bd., title page (Der Okovanghofluss, Ch. J. Andersson's Reise im Südwestlichen Afrika) Plowman, Matthew Erin. Doors left open then slammed shut: the German colonization of Southwest Africa and the Anglo-German rivalry, 1883-1915, 1995, viewed online April 5, 2022: pages 4-5 (Swede merchant Charles Andersson, who was given the Herero title "regent and military commander for the period of his natural life or as long as he desired", assisted the Herero during the 1864 Herero-Nama war) Vänersborgs Museum website, The voyage of discovery, viewed April 5, 2022 (the zoologists and traders Charles John Andersson and Axel Eriksson; Charles John Anderson, son of eccentric bear hunter, Llewellyn Lloyd, who moved from England to Sweden, hunting and collecting fauna from the provinces surrounding Vänern; his interests were passed on to his son, who became one of the most acclaimed explorers of Africa of his times; his depictions of travels through Southern Africa attract readers to this day; Axel Eriksson, a butcher's son, became Charles John Anderson's assistant and they travelled together through Africa; after Anderson's death, Eriksson continued his research, for instance, mapping bird life in Damara and Omaruru, in modern Namibia) Wikipedia, June 15, 2023 (Charles John Andersson; Karl John (Karl Johan) Andersson; Swedish explorer, hunter and trader, amateur naturalist and ornithologist; born 4 March 1827 in Norra Råda Värmland, Sweden; began studies at the University of Lund in 1847; went to London in 1849 to raise money for travel, met explorer Francis Galton, traveled with him in 1850 to the Cape of Good Hope and then Walvis Bay in modern-day Namibia; Andersson reached Lake Ngami in 1853; returned to London in 1855, published "Lake Ngami"; returned to south west Africa the same year; in 1859 he reached the Okavango River; travelled to the Cape where he married; the couple settled in Otjimbingwe, in modern central Namibia; died 9 July 1867 in Omutwe-Onjambu, Angola while attempting to reach Portuguese settlements there in order to establish a better trading route to Europe; after his death, his father, British bear hunter Llewellyn Lloyd, published notes from some of his expeditions in "Notes of Travel in South-Western Africa") |
| Associated language | eng |
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