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Emil Holub

Bohemian naturalist
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Born:
October 7, 1847, Holice, Bohemia
Died:
February 21, 1902, Vienna (aged 54)
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Emil Holub (born October 7, 1847, Holice, Bohemia—died February 21, 1902, Vienna) was a naturalist who travelled extensively in south central Africa gathering varied and valuable natural history collections that he distributed to museums and schools throughout Europe. In 1872 he went to South Africa, where he practiced as a surgeon at the Kimberley diamond fields. Undertaking expeditions to the northern Transvaal, Mashonaland (eastern Rhodesia) and through Bechuanaland to Victoria Falls, he collected the specimens that he took back to Europe in 1879. Returning to South Africa with his wife in 1883, he planned to cross the continent from Cape ...(100 of 179 words)

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