biography
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Rohlfs, (Friedrich) Gerhard
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| lived:
| (1831–96)
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| biography:
| Explorer, born in Vegesack, NW Germany. He studied medicine, and joined the Foreign Legion in Algeria (1855). After learning Arabic he explored Morocco, disguised as an Arab, and reached Fezzan in the Sahara. He crossed Africa from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Guinea (1865–6), the first known European to do so, and in 1874 he crossed the Sahara again, from Tripoli to Egypt. In 1885 he was appointed German consul to Zanzibar. |
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