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Friederich Konrad Hornemann

German explorer
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Born:
September 1772, Hildesheim, Hanover [Germany]
Died:
February 1801, Bokane, Nupe [Nigeria] (aged 28)
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Friederich Konrad Hornemann (born September 1772, Hildesheim, Hanover [Germany]—died February 1801, Bokane, Nupe [Nigeria]) was the first modern European to make the dangerous crossing of the northeastern Sahara. His journal, later published, contained a substantial amount of information on the then-unknown terrain and inhabitants of the central Sudan. In London (1796) he offered to serve as an explorer for the African Association. Disguised as a Muslim, on Sept. 5, 1798, at Cairo, he joined a caravan returning from Mecca and bound for the Maghrib (northwestern Africa). He traveled by way of the Siwa Oasis, Egypt, and Temissa, Fezzan, and reached ...(100 of 195 words)

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