Heinrich Barth

See also: Barth (homonymy)

Heinrich Barth (born the February 16th 1821 with Hamburg - died the November 25th 1865 with Berlin) was a Explorateur of the Western Africa, but as a Linguiste, Géographe, Ethnologue rt anthropologist one says as he speaks 50 languages.

He travelled in Italy of 1840, and of 1845 with 1848 carried out around the the Mediterranean a voyage Archéologique. After having published part of its Explorations of the coasts of the Mediterranean (Berlin, 1849), he united with commercial and scientific forwarding in the Sudan, organized by James Richardson; of German nationality, it was financed by the British of 1849 with 1855; undergoes more the severely testeds during a voyage of almost 5 years (1849 - 1854), under a devouring climate and among unknown populations; saw falling around him almost all his/her companions.

After Rene Caillié, he was the third explorer (after Alexander Gordon Laing and Rene Caillié) to reach Tombouctou, in 1853. He solved the enigmas of the lake Chad and the mouth of the river Niger.

Part of its forwardings was done with the geologist Adolf Overweg (1822-1852) and of Pasteur protesting James Richardson (1806 - 1851), anti-slavery evangelist and . Their relations were surging.

On its return, it published a considerable number of new and interesting documents on these regions: Voyages and descriptions in north and the center of Africa (1857 - 1858), 5 volumes in-8, English and German; it was publishes in French only one extract according to a German summary); Vocabulary of the languages of central Africa (in German and English, 1862, 2 volumes, in-8).

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