| LC control no. | n 85298766 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Nachtigal, Gustav, 1834-1885 |
| Variant(s) | Nākhtījāl, Jūstāf, 1834-1885 ناختيقال، جوستاف، 1834-1885 ناختقال، جوستاف نختغال، غوستاف |
| Associated country | Germany |
| Associated place | Algeria Tunisia Nigeria Chad Sudan Egypt Togo Cameroon |
| Birth date | 1834-02-23 |
| Death date | 1885-04-19 |
| Place of birth | Eichstedt (Brandenburg, Germany) |
| Place of death | Palmas, Cape (Liberia) |
| Field of activity | Sahara--Description and travel Sudan (Region)--Description and travel Africa, Central--Description and travel Africa, West--Description and travel Germany--Colonies--Africa Africa, West--Colonization Ethnology Tropical medicine |
| Profession or occupation | Physicians Surgeons Explorers Travel writers Diplomats |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Sahara and Sudan, 1987- , c1986- : v. 3, t.p. (Gustav Nachtigal) LC data base, 11-10-86 (hdg.: Nachtigal, Gustav, 1834-1885) al-Ṣaḥrāʼ wa-bilād al-Sūdān, 2007- : v.1, t.p. (Jūstāf Nākhtījāl) Encyclopaedia Britannica (online), viewed Feb. 5, 2018 (Gustav Nachtigal; German explorer; born Feb. 23, 1834, Eichstedt, Brandenburg; died April 19, 1885, at sea, off Cape Palmas, Liberia; explorer of the Sahara who helped Germany obtain protectorates over regions now in Togo and Cameroon; military surgeon, went to Tunisia as physician to the bey; in 1869 the king of Prussia, William I, sent him on a mission to the kingdom of Bornu, now in northern Nigeria; he traveled by way of central Sahara regions including Tibesti and Borkou, today in northern Chad, then the sultanate of Baguirmi, also in Chad, then Kordofan province in Sudan, reaching Cairo in November 1875; served as German consul at Tunis 1882-1884) Wikipedia, Feb. 5, 2018 (Gustav Nachtigal; military surgeon in Cologne, Germany; contracted a lung disease and relocated to Annaba, Algeria in 1862; as a surgeon, took part in expeditions into Central Africa; learned to speak Arabic in Tunis; he was primarily interested in ethnography as well as tropical medicine) |
| Associated language | ger ara |
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