Franz Engel (1834 in
Röbel
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– 1920 in
Neubrandenburg
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) was a German explorer and
naturalist
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.
He traveled extensively in
South America
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in the years 1857–63 and published the results of his explorations in several volumes, including ''Studien unter den Tropen Amerikas'' (“Studies among the American tropics,” 2d ed., 1879), ‘Aus dem Pflanzerstaate Zulia’ (“From the plantation state of
Zulia
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,” 1881). From 1872 to 1896 he published the ''Landwirthschaftliche Jahrbücher'' (“Agricultural yearbooks”).
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1834 births
1920 deaths
19th-century German botanists
19th-century German explorers
Explorers of South America
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