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Thonner, Franz
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Person (Male)
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- Amateur
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Vienna [A], 1863 - Prague [CZ], 1928
Activity
1896 [Congo Free State]
° 11.3.1863; + 21.4.1928. Botanist, anthropologist and explorer of Austrian origin. "In the spring of 1896 I undertook a journey into the interior of Africa [...] The results of that journey include a herbarium of 120 species, more than 100 original photographs [and] a compass survey of my route between the Congo and the Mongala": preface to his work "Dans la grande forêt de l'Afrique Centrale", 1899, illustrated with 87 of his own photographs reproduced in collotype by Stengel & Markert of Dresden [D]. This work is the Belgian edition of his account "Im Afrikanischen Urwald", Berlin, 1898.
° 11.3.1863; + 21.4.1928. Botanist, anthropologist and explorer of Austrian origin. "In the spring of 1896 I undertook a journey into the interior of Africa [...] The results of that journey include a herbarium of 120 species, more than 100 original photographs [and] a compass survey of my route between the Congo and the Mongala": preface to his work "Dans la grande forêt de l'Afrique Centrale", 1899, illustrated with 87 of his own photographs reproduced in collotype by Stengel & Markert of Dresden [D]. This work is the Belgian edition of his account "Im Afrikanischen Urwald", Berlin, 1898.
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1896 [Congo Free State]
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Bibliography/Webography
LAWALREE, André, "Thonner (Franz), botaniste, explorateur, anthropologue et ethnologue autrichien" in Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer, Brussels, 1998, vol. 8, pp. 414-418.
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DIRECTORY_1997#4117
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SFJ revised 10.7.2018 & 16.1.2019