Hermann von Rosenberg
See also: Rosenberg
Carl Benjamin Hermann von Rosenberg , born the April 7th 1817 with Darmstadt and dead the November 15th 1888 with $the Hague, was a soldier and a Naturaliste of German origin .
Military career, the baron Rosenberg is in station with Java and remains 16 years in Indonesia. He takes part in the exploration of Sumatra.
In 1858, it starts to collect the Oiseau X during a forwarding in New Guinea. Soon, he works for the account of Hermann Schlegel, director of the natural history museum of Natural history of Leyde. In 1863 and 1864, Rosenberg prospects in the archipelago of the Célèbes. Until 1871, it explores the Western coasts of New Guinea and makes it possible Schlegel to describe many news species.
It withdraws in 1871 and writes its Der Malayische Archipel. Land und Leute in Schilderungen, gesammelt während eines dreissigjährigen Aufenthaltes in den Kolonien , which becomes rather popular. It described Indonesia there and gives information on its topography, the zoology, the ethnography and the spoken languages in the area.
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