Gustav Nachtigal

Gustav Nachtigal is an explorer German, born the February 23rd 1834 with Eichstedt and died at sea the April 20th 1885.

After studies of medicine in the universities of Market, Würzburg and Greifswald, it engages as surgeon in the army. Finding the climate German prejudicial with its health, it leaves for Algiers and Tunis and takes part as a surgeon in many forwardings of exploration.

It is charged by the king with Prussia with giving of the gifts to the sultan of Bornou to reward it for its benevolence towards the Germans. This voyage will last five years. Started from Tripoli in 1869, it crosses the Saharan area of the Tibesti and reached Bornou in 1871, from where it sets out again to go to Bagirmi, Wadai, Kordofan and Khartoum in 1874.

In 1884, it is named by the chancellor Otto von Bismarck in central and Western Africa like special correspondent to negotiate the territorial annexations. Thanks to its interventions, the Togo and the Cameroun will become German colonies. It is for this reason that he proclaims with Luderitz the German Protectorat on the South-western African.

He dies in 1885, with broad of the Cape Palmas with the Liberia. He is buried with Large-Bassam in Ivory Coast.

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